Emerging markets

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Emerging market fund flows have suffered their worst week since 2011, as investors fear a correction arising from the tapering of the US's QE program.

Emerging markets have had a rough time recently. Over the past two and a half years, their economic performance has stayed behind that of developed markets.

Newton's Jason Pidcock has called into question opportunities in China, despite official figures showing the economy is expanding at 7%, and said there are much better opportunities elsewhere in Asia.

Austrian fund manager Raiffeisen Capital Management has introduced sterling share classes on three of its emerging market equity funds.

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Goldman Sachs Asset Management has soft-closed its N-11 Equity Portfolio less than three years after launch, as assets in the strategy swelled beyond $1.7bn (£1.1bn).

India has recorded its worst GDP growth in a decade as fears persist over high inflation and a slump in manufacturing.

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