Emerging Market Debt – Page 8
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Swiss funds troubled by impact of negative 10-year bond yields
Swiss 10-year government bond yield positive if inflation forecast remains true
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Switzerland's Publica now considering active only for 'niche' investments
Country’s largest pension fund adds risk via fixed income portfolio rather than equities
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Special Report
Special Report - Emerging Markets: Fed up with volatility
The Federal Reserve-sparked ‘taper tantrum’ of 2013 revealed how sensitive emerging market currencies could be to interest rates set in the developed world. Caroline Saunders asks whether that volatility told us more about investor sentiment than fiscal fundamentals
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Special Report – Emerging markets: Emerging markets in transition
The rise of the emerging world, and especially China, has transformed the global economy over the past generation, while the past decade has transformed investors’ attitudes to its markets. Daniel Ben-Ami assesses where we are in an ongoing transition
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Special Report - Emerging Markets: Safety first?
Claims that emerging market investors herded into quality companies in the first half of 2014 raise concerns about troubled times ahead. But as Lynn Strongin Dodds finds, some of that trade has already unwound – and there is a strong counter-argument that investors were, in fact, looking for growth rather than safety
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Special Report – Emerging markets: Buying opportunity, or structural setback?
Over the past six years, few investment themes have invited such gyrations in sentiment, or generated so much contention, as the emerging markets. After an initial sell-off during the worst of the 2007-08 financial crisis, they clearly outperformed through 2009-11.
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Special Report - Emerging Markets: Building the emerging world
Bank disintermediation, and the opportunities it presents, is as strong a theme in emerging infrastructure markets as developed. But Jennifer Bollen finds the similarities may end there
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Special Report - Emerging Markets: On borrowed time?
Warnings about China’s growing debt exposure abound. Beverly Chandler finds market players confident that the system is robust – but emphasising the importance of continued reform and rebalancing
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Special Report - Emerging Markets: Corporates come of age
A structural advantage is baked into emerging market corporate debt, but exploiting it is dangerous without intense credit work. Caroline Saunders finds a market coming out of childhood but not yet an adult
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Asset Class Reports
Beleggersberaad 2014: Managers sing praises of frontier markets
Emerging market debt (EMD) has matured and could now act as a “useful addition” to a pension fund’s fixed income portfolio, according to Roy Scheepe, senior client portfolio manager at ING Investment Management.
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Grade deflation
Take out the 2008-09 crisis, and the past 18 months have seen emerging market credit rating downgrades outnumber upgrades for the first time in over a decade. Joseph Mariathasan asks if the loss of momentum in ratings convergence is a sign of weakening fundamentals or a return to old prejudices
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Emerging Market Debt: Default judgement
The US Supreme Court judgement that led to Argentina’s eighth debt default is an alarming precedent for both emerging and developed sovereigns, argues Rani Mina
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Emerging Market Debt: Carry through the crises
Navigating the switch from fundamentals-driven volatility to carry-driven calm in 2013-14 has been a challenge for emerging market debt managers, Martin Steward writes. The eruption of political crises simply adds to the complexity
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Bonds and the ballot box
Amid a rash of important elections, the rumble of ongoing territorial disputes, a deteriorating situation in coup-plagued Thailand and an alarming rise in tensions between Hong Kong and Beijing, Joseph Mariathasan looks into the impact of political risk on Asia’s bond markets
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News
Mandate roundup: IPE-Quest, Pension Protection Fund
Danish pension fund tenders €100m GEM debt mandate using IPE-Quest
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Re-calibrating risk
Early summer saw volatility back in global markets, and nowhere more so than local currency emerging market debt. Joseph Mariathasan dampens out the noise and re-assesses the underlying fundamental arguments for the asset class
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Emerging Market Debt: Missing linkers
Emerging-market inflation-linked bonds are entering a new era. Martin Steward asks how they might fit into European institutional investors’ portfolios
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Emerging Market Debt: Throwing light on the shadows
Joseph Mariathasan looks at the little-understood world of Chinese SME non-bank financing, which is fast on its way to becoming one of the world’s most important debt markets
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Emerging Market Debt: The great correlation
Emerging market debt has been driven by Fed policy more than fundamentals
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Emerging Market Debt: Corporate issues
How will emerging market corporate debt fare through the first real challenge since it became a genuinely mainstream asset class? Federico Carballo and Florence Duculot offer their prognosis
