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Positive developments luring investors back into EM – Pictet
Positive developments such as evidence of an underlying improvement in industrial production and exports in Asia are luring investors back into emerging markets, said Pictet Asset Management’s chief strategist Luca Paolini.
Asia Pacific Funds Passport takes big step forward
Representatives from Australia, Japan, Korea, and New Zealand signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) on the Asia Region Funds Passport (ARFP) on Thursday, that should see the initiative launched next year.
Macro Views | 5 Apr 16
Blurred symmetry in Q1 fund performance figures
What a difference a year makes. In the first quarter of 2015, the top 10 funds were a mixture of Japanese equities, Russian equities, and biotechnology funds, with a frontier markets fund rounding things out.
Investors sell off as markets trough
European investors did themselves a disservice in February. They sold out of pretty much all asset classes when markets hit (in some cases) multi-year lows before recovering their losses in the past couple of weeks. The outflows mainly hit active funds, as ETFs saw modest net inflows.
European investors shun Japanese, US large-cap in Feb
Outflows from open-ended funds in Europe continued apace in February, the latest data from Morningstar reveals.