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Emerging markets funds have been hit by the biggest level of outflows in seven years, as issues including MSCI stalling on adding Chinese A-shares to its benchmarks weighed on sentiment.

Index provider MSCI has said it will not include China A-Shares in its global and emerging market benchmarks until issues relating to liquidity and ownership are resolved.

Help or hindrance?

Peter Askew, co-manager of the T. Bailey Growth fund, says investors are at risk of missing out on the best Asian opportunities by only allocating to the region through emerging market labels

The upgrade of two major frontier markets to emerging market status led to a significant increase in turnover for the HSBC Frontier Markets fund last year.

EFG Asset Management has launched a New Capital Global Equity Conviction fund for head of equity research Robin Milway.

Andrew Swan, manager of the BlackRock Asia fund, analyses the prospects for Chinese markets as the country deals with the consequences of its new reform-led agenda

China's global reach could widen if the MSCI China Emerging Markets index is opened up to domestic stocks and the IMF decides to include the renminbi in its special drawing rights currency basket this year. Nitesh Shah, associate director, research, at...

China fund managers are preparing for ‘controversial' changes to the benchmark index, which could also prompt adjustments to Investment Association definitions.

Skagen's Knut Gezelius is to "significantly restructure" his £4.5bn Global fund following a period of severe underperformance in 2014.