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Emerging Markets | news 6 Oct 17
Investors dump emerging market debt as Fed hike looms
Emerging market debt has been the best-selling asset class with European investors this year, but flows turned negative in late September against a backdrop of a hawkish Fed and a strengthening dollar.
Investment | news 6 Oct 17
Brace for global recession in 2019
An economic downturn affecting most developed markets will occur in 2019, Aegon Asset Management has predicted.
Aegon opens Mexican asset manager
Dutch insurer Aegon and its North American subsidiary Transamerica are setting up a Mexican asset management joint venture with the same firm that partnered with Lombard International to launch a life company earlier this year.
Two Sipp providers partner with platform for worldwide push
Guernsey-based platform Momentum Wealth International has partnered with two well-established expat-focused pension providers, Edinburgh-based Forthplus and the unrelated, multi-jurisdictional Momentum Pensions to give a worldwide push for customised versions of their self-invested personal pension schemes.
Best Practice | news 5 Oct 17
South Africa Best Practice Adviser Award winners revealed
The winners in South Africa for International Adviser’s Best Practice Adviser Awards 2017 series were revealed on 5 October at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town.