Emerging Markets

Aberdeen is to implement "significant" additional cost savings after emerging market woes saw it suffer £3.9bn in net outflows for the first two months of 2014.

Investors' ability to buy the entire Turkish market for the value of Starbucks indicates emerging markets are strangely undervalued, a fund manager has argued.

T Rowe Price's emerging market debt team has cut back on its Iraq government debt position, in anticipation of renewed political turmoil in the country.

Investec Asset Management's plans to launch preferentially priced share classes for key distributors have been thrown into doubt after the country's largest D2C platforms revealed no evidence of such deals.

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Psigma's Tom Becket believes this year's Indian elections could be a new dawn for the troubled country, saying its current situation "cannot get any worse".

UBS Wealth Management's research team is finding better value opportunities in Europe than in emerging markets, pointing to the latter's political instability and lack of earnings momentum.

Angela Merkel's government is the latest to back the US Federal Reserve's withdrawal of monetary stimulus despite continuing emerging market turmoil, reports have suggested.

Active emerging market equity managers have been given a further incentive to invest ‘off benchmark' after recent market falls emphasised the role played by ETFs.

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