Investors remain conservative for the short term but expect improved returns over the next decade. So says a Franklin Templeton global investor sentiment survey conducted earlier this year, which polled more than 20,000 investors in 19 countries.
The proposed new tax rules in India, widely resented by foreign investors and expected to increase the costs of investing in India, will not make India any less attractive as investment destination.
Notorious for its tight capital controls and glacially paced market reforms, India has now displeased foreign investors with a bevy of new taxes proposed recently in the Finance Bill 2012. The international media wasted no time in drawing attention to the widespread concern for, and reconsideration of, the costs and benefits of investing in India. […]
Emerging markets are dishing out healthy returns to investors—and a big slice of humble pie to detractors.
Despite declining growth data from China, emerging markets remain attractive to investors, seeing an upward swing of 25% in dollar terms since last October.
RBC Wealth Management has announced it will acquire the Latin American, Caribbean and African private banking business of Coutts, the wealth division of Royal Bank of Scotland Group. The business has client assets in excess of US$2 billion.
Companies based in emerging markets must ensure they measure up to Canadian regulatory scrutiny if they are going to seek capital in our markets, the OSC has declared in its Emerging Markets Issuer Review.
Despite the country’s softening growth rate, fund managers still have a positive outlook on Chinese equities, with an economic “soft landing” expected this year.
The relevance of the original G7 is fading fast. Not only is China now the world’s second largest economy, but Brazil has reached sixth place in the world.
While the European crisis is yet to be fully resolved, emerging markets may regain some of the luster lost in 2011. What’s interesting is how investing in troubled Europe might be among the better plays on the developing world.