Equities
Emerging markets
The emerging markets asset class remains at the forefront of the world's most vibrant and fastest-growing economies, with overall gross domestic product growth rates comfortably in excess of the developed world this year, despite much-publicised slowdowns...
10 October 2016
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2 min read
Emerging markets
Raman Aylur Subramanian, head of equity applied research at MSCI, analyses the opportunities different emerging market countries have offered investors in the recent rally and how a handful of sectors have been key to the region's outperformance.
10 October 2016
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3 min read
Asia
At the start of the year, broad-based fears that an emergency step devaluation of the renminbi was needed to prevent China's economy undergoing a 'hard-landing' were weighing heavily on the country's stockmarket.
06 October 2016
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2 min read
Asia
Japan's domestic economy still seems to be stumbling along. From one quarter to the next, Japan data watchers have been rewarded with revisions down (FY2016 GDP revised to 0.9%, down from 1.7%) as well as revisions up (Q2 GDP revised up to 0.7% quarter-on-quarter,...
06 October 2016
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2 min read
UK
Conflicting forces are buffeting UK equity income investors. Tailwinds include the record low base rate, which is boosting the appeal of dividend income, according to Aviva Investors' James Balfour.
06 October 2016
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2 min read
