Emerging markets
Barclays delivers fourth issue of Emerging Markets Optimiser
Barclays Wealth has released the fourth issue of its five-year Emerging Markets Optimiser, which has accrued more than £50 million since the first tranche launched in February. The plan offers the Eastern European option that was introduced in the June…
Grahame Mcgirr & James Bagshawe
All the talk in the financial markets is about going back to basics. This drive towards simplicity and transparency is what underpins Islamic finance. Credit speaks to two senior executives from recently launched Shariah house Gatehouse Bank about a…
MFS Investment Management: Smoothing out the bumps
As seasoned investors will tell you, putting your money in emerging markets can be a rough ride. The highs may be high, but the lows can be even lower. The emerging markets debt team at MFS Investment Management are aiming to give their investors a…
Emerging markets could produce next boom-bust cycle
As regulators clamp down on securitised products, leveraged investors are racing to new markets. JP Morgan analysts say the crisis might be shifting leverage from structured products to emerging markets.
Afores to the fore
Pensions
Eyes on the storm
Supranationals
Micro-finance, macro gains
Micro-Finance
Emerging markets still on the rise
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Protected from the subprime chaos
The Latin American region has suffered its fair share of financial difficulties - most of them self-inflicted - but a period of economic stability and rebuilding has left many LatAm countries well equipped to withstand the fallout from the recent…
India bank governor points out risks to rapid growth in emerging markets
India's Reddy calls attention to risks in emerging markets
BIS chief discusses emerging markets and financial risk
Knight outlines new risks in globalised economy
Deutsche Bank hires Miranda to push into EM prime broking
Deutsche Bank Securities has appointed Luciana Miranda as a managing director in the fixed-income prime brokerage group, within the bank's global markets division.
Emerging markets open up to hybrids
Borrowers from markets such as Russia, Hungary and Mexico have finally cottoned on to the benefits of issuing hybrid debt - and the trend is not just limited to financial institutions. Laurence Neville reports
Reining in India
India
Introduction
Introduction
A two-pronged approach
Hedge funds
Joining the party
Inflation
Upwardly mobile
Korea
Kevin Colglazier
The head of fixed income at Standard Asset Management in London, discusses the firm's activity in emerging markets
Follow up: BIS on emerging economies
In this chapter of the Bank for International Settlements’ recent report on emerging markets, the BIS discusses the changing nature of risks facing banks.
In Brief:
BIS releases progress report on emerging economies