Emerging markets

Aberdeen AM has raised its interim dividend by more than a third as revenue rose by over 25% in the six months to 31 March.

A leading emerging markets specialist has said China remains a compelling investment proposition, despite the slowing growth in the region.

Emerging market sovereign bonds have become overpriced following a surge in inflows as investors hunted for higher yields, City Financial's head of multi-asset Mark Harris has said.

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Fidelity has added a new product to its emerging market debt fund range, taking the total number of products to four.

Sarasin & Partners has launched a lower cost emerging markets fund, designed to provide access to smaller countries in the space.

First State Stewart has warned it may be forced to soft-close its Dublin-domiciled range, including offerings from star manager Jonathan Asante and Angus Tulloch, if inflows continue at their current pace.

AXA Investment Managers' head of emerging market equities, Julian Thompson, has named Mexico as his top pick from among the EM countries in his investment universe.

Martin Currie has set up an investment hub in Singapore to focus on its growing client base in Asia.

Chinese and wider Asia stock markets were boosted today by better than expected inflation data from China.