Story by: James Smith, Investment Adviser
Lowes Wealth Management is preparing to push its East-West Value fund to the UK retail market, establishing LWM Distribution to spearhead this venture.
India investment boutique, Kotak Mahindra Asset Management, has launched the India Growth fund (IGF), designed to offer specialist access to growing opportunities in the region.
Greater numbers of advisers believe emerging markets will be the best performing market over the next five years, according to research by Axa Wealth.
Fidelity International's Anthony Bolton has invested £2.5m into his nascent investment trust and predicts China will become the world's second-largest stock market.
F&C's Ted Scott has dismissed fears that China could fall into the same traps that led to Japan's economic meltdown in 1990.
Neptune's sector-topping emerging markets manager Ewan Thompson entered 2010 with a boosted cash position on short-term caution, although he remains extremely bullish longer term.
First State Investments' China specialist Martin Lau is highlighting opportunities in the country's insurance sector as the growing middle class looks to protect assets.
Investec's emerging market debt managers Peter Eerdmans and Werner Gey van Pittius are net long emerging bonds and currencies as they believe upside remains in the region.
Developed world equities will beat emerging markets this year, leading fund managers have predicted, defying popular and media consensus.
Fund ratings agency OBSR has stripped JPMorgan's JF India fund of its rating.
Recent developments in peripheral Europe have highlighted a material concern for investors: have the stresses evident in the financial system during the ‘credit crunch’ been resolved or merely shifted onto sovereign balance sheets?
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