India is in "a sweet spot right now, " given where the yields are in the rest of the region and the flexibility the central bank has to cut, said Thomas Kemmsies, head of fixed income at Nomura Asset Management Deutschland KAG in Frankfurt.

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"We've held a substantial long position in the Mexican peso since the beginning of the year, which has done very well, and we're going to keep that for the time being simply on fundamentals and attractive valuations, " said Dagmar Dvorak, an investment manager of fixed income and currencies at Baring Asset Management in London.

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Mr Gilbert said the level of fixed-income business that had left Aberdeen Asset Management had "slowed significantly" and the company continued to be successful in attracting new investment to global equity and emerging market equity funds.

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The BlackRock segment manages assets on behalf of institutional and individual investors worldwide through a variety of equity, fixed income, multi-asset class, alternative and cash management separate accounts and funds, including iShares.

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Bill Gross, a fixed-income champion at Pimco, an American asset-management firm, predicted last September that bond returns will outstrip equities until share prices fall to their fair value, that is, until the Dow Jones Industrial Average is at 5, 000 rather than today's 8, 000-odd.

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The need for income certainty will become much more important than before and all of these factors are conducive to fixed income and positive for the development of greater depth and breadth of the regional asset-management industry.

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