Nomura to launch wealth-driven emerging market strategy
GLOBAL - Nomura Asset Management plans to launch an emerging market small-cap strategy that will determine holdings according to a country's gross domestic product adjusted for purchasing power parity.
The strategy, the Nomura Emerging Wealth Strategy (NEWS), will launch on 22 February as a UCITS fund, and has already attracted $23m from a UK-based local authority pension fund, said Mark Roxburgh, Nomura's...
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