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Emerging markets pioneer Mark Mobius to step down as lead manager on Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust
EMERGING MARKETS OCT 22, 2015
Emerging markets pioneer Mark Mobius to step down as lead manager on Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust

Carlos Hardenberg selected as new lead manager in effort to bolster performance, which has been subpar.

By Bloomberg
EMERGING MARKETS OCT 18, 2015
China equity exposure, already big in some funds, expected to increase in 2016

MSCI plans to add nearly two-dozen foreign-listed companies, including two of China's biggest, to its global indexes.

By Todd Rosenbluth
EQUITIES OCT 17, 2015
Rising rates not expected to have a huge impact on stocks

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Just because Janet Yellen and the Fed are going to be raising interest rates soon doesn't mean there won't be investment opportunities.

By Jeff Benjamin
Yellen, yuan and yields: Global economies are more closely linked than ever
EMERGING MARKETS OCT 16, 2015
Yellen, yuan and yields: Global economies are more closely linked than ever

When China sneezed last quarter, the world caught a cold but smart investors found opportunity.

By Charles Reinhard
How to position fixed-income portfolios for rising rates and volatility
EMERGING MARKETS OCT 16, 2015
How to position fixed-income portfolios for rising rates and volatility

Benchmark hugging will not benefit most investors, so advisers must look far and wide for opportunity.

By Tom Marthaler
Stay calm and don't worry about Black Monday
EQUITIES OCT 15, 2015
Stay calm and don't worry about Black Monday

Parallels between now and 1987 are thin at best

By Jeff Benjamin
FTSE announces first emerging markets indexes with China A shares exposure
EQUITIES OCT 08, 2015
FTSE announces first emerging markets indexes with China A shares exposure

Allows institutional investors to add an initial increment of China A shares exposure to their emerging markets benchmarks.

By Douglas Appell
How to work infrastructure funds into clients' portfolios
ALTERNATIVES OCT 07, 2015
How to work infrastructure funds into clients' portfolios

Three allocation strategies that could let clients tap into the global infrastructure boom

By Joshua Duitz
Fidelity, Pimco, Capital Group hit by big losses in Brazilian oil company bonds
EMERGING MARKETS OCT 07, 2015
Fidelity, Pimco, Capital Group hit by big losses in Brazilian oil company bonds

Pimco, Fidelity and Capital Group are the biggest holders of Petrobras' 100-year bonds, which are down 15% since June, four times the average loss for emerging-market debt.

By Bloomberg
ETFs having a tough year after roaring 2014
EQUITIES OCT 06, 2015
ETFs having a tough year after roaring 2014

Only 10% in positive territory while at this time last year, 66% of ETFs were up.

By Bloomberg
Emerging-market investors ran to the exits in the third quarter
EQUITIES OCT 06, 2015
Emerging-market investors ran to the exits in the third quarter

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Investors gave no love to emerging market economies in the third quarter, as they saw the biggest quarterly outflows since 2008.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES OCT 05, 2015
What markets to watch when the Fed hands down its rate decision

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> 'The decision' for Fed on interest rates could rock these 6 markets.

By Jeff Benjamin
EMERGING MARKETS SEP 30, 2015
Franklin Templeton's Hasenstab says assets are cheap, bets big on emerging markets

Money manager's view contrasts with some big hedge fund managers who see beginnings of bear market

By Bloomberg
Franklin Templeton posts worst fund outflows in decades
EQUITIES SEP 15, 2015
Franklin Templeton posts worst fund outflows in decades

Bold bets, market fears have investors heading for the exits despite longer-term outperformance.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
EQUITIES SEP 14, 2015
A bucket strategy for retirement

<b>Breakfast with Benjamin:</b> Here's a new way to think about building a portfolio for your retired clients using the old bucket strategy. Three buckets for three timeframes

By Jeff Benjamin
DoubleLine's Gundlach outperforms Loomis' Fuss and Janus' Gross in recent market rout
EMERGING MARKETS SEP 10, 2015
DoubleLine's Gundlach outperforms Loomis' Fuss and Janus' Gross in recent market rout

Jeffrey Gundlach's $48.2 billion DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund returned 0.7% over the past month while his peers showed losses.

By Bloomberg
In Puerto Rico, a good thing gone bad for UBS
EMERGING MARKETS SEP 02, 2015
In Puerto Rico, a good thing gone bad for UBS

Investor claims pile up as the territory sinks in the downward spiral of a government debt crisis.

By Bloomberg
EQUITIES SEP 01, 2015
Go-anywhere bond funds have failed to go anywhere positive over the past year

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Nontraditional bond funds that sounded too good to be true are looking like a bust, so far.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES AUG 31, 2015
Finding hidden gems in global small caps

They're less expensive than their U.S. counterparts and can lower portfolio volatility.

By Darek Wojnar
In hindsight, China's market meltdown wasn't really that bad
EQUITIES AUG 26, 2015
In hindsight, China's market meltdown wasn't really that bad

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Now that the dust has started to settle, China's stock market meltdown doesn't seem all that awful.

By Jeff Benjamin