A series of shock rate hikes have failed to prevent a fresh sell-off in emerging market currencies, with developed market equities including the FTSE 100 also caught in the storm.
Emerging markets (EM) continue to deliver good returns to pension funds but investors need to be more selective about which countries they choose, Capital Group says.
Equities have taken a tumble as the emerging markets (EM) sell-off continues.
Avon Pension Fund has awarded a £165m emerging markets (EM) mandate to Unigestion.
Buzz respondents expect equity investments to continue to perform well for schemes in 2014.
Developed market equities, gilts and bonds are overvalued, a growing proportion of investors and analysts believe.
Natasha Browne asks: are frontier markets just emerging markets with a new label?
Natasha Browne explores how emerging markets’ rapid growth is tapering off
Charlotte Moore looks at the forces at work on the American currency
The Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London (SAUL) has hired Payden & Rygel (P&R) to run its £80m absolute return bond mandate as it continues to diversify away from equities.