Global Rebalancing and Sovereign Wealth Funds
Super funds fuel growth in emerging world.
- September 6, 2011 September 13, 2019
- 08:22
Super funds fuel growth in emerging world.
In its SEC filing last September, the Harvard’s Endowment Fund revealed something interesting - it had loaded up on emerging market ETFs. At the time the fund held a hefty number of shares of the iShares MSCI Braxil and iShares FTSE/Xinhua China. But also less prominent markets as well like Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and South Korea.
Coverage of the 2011 Risk Management Conference.
Coverage of the 2011 Risk Management Conference
Supply/demand imbalance a boon for investors.
Mobius shares his predictions.
One factor that makes emerging markets so interesting is the growth of their consumer base. Markets like Brazil, India and China have built a compelling story of a growing middle class and burgeoning potential for consumer consumption in the future (a story which has ended badly in developed market countries). The problem is that tapping into consumer growth is tough if you stick to large cap indexes.
Coverage of the 2011 Risk Management Conference.
Coverage of the 2011 Risk Management Conference.
With another recession on the horizon, market volatility is here to stay. Are leveraged and inverse ETPs a good risk management tool for plan sponsors?