India is also a favorite for Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets equity at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
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The WisdomTree Emerging Markets Equity ( DEM) has 200 stocks and yields 3.38% with an expense charge of 0.63%.
Look no further than the relative performance of VWO and the Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF (SCHE), the latter of which tracks a similar version of the FTSE Emerging Markets index.
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Looking at the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ( VWO) will provide some clue: the exchange traded fund is up 0.79 percent as of Feb. 1, as is the Wisdom Tree Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund ( DEM).
Hence, when equity markets volatility increases, or the perception that equity markets volatility will increase, additional flows can be expected into Gold investment strategies.
But with so much money flooding the private equity and venture capital markets and relatively listless equity markets (the Dow only just closed above 11, 000 on Monday for the first time since 2001), venture capital investors seem more willing to take their exits in a merger when they can get them--even if that means winding up with less of a gain.
"Despite the recent rise in equity markets, we believe an enormous gap exists between the apparent bullish consensus on equities and effective low positioning in equity markets, " Didier Duret, chief investment officer for the private bank of Dutch financial services giant ABN Amro, told clients last week.
The increase in margins is supported by increase in premiums due to the implementation of the new variable annuity products and increase in fee income due to increases in average assets under management resulting from improvements in equity markets and increased deposit activity as equity market improvements created an environment where investors were willing to re-enter the capital markets.
Asian Pay Television's IPO comes at a time when Southeast Asian markets and equity offerings are on the rise.
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"Investors would be comparing large funds with small ones and money markets with equity funds, " says Craig Tyle , the ICI's general counsel.
If operating cash flows continue to drop as sharply as they did in the fourth quarter, Groupon may need to tap the public markets for equity.
Additionally, they picked up the WisdomTree Emerging Markets High-Yielding Equity Fund (nyse: DEM - news - people ), which tracks the performance of the WisdomTree Emerging Markets High-Yielding Equity index.
His comments will impact not only gold, but also other financial markets such as U.S. Treasury bonds and equity markets.
Tintle developed an enthusiasm for markets somewhere around age 11, when his grandfather taught him about equity markets and some of the ins and outs of business and banking.
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Looking at the decline in total assets under management, equity assets are currently at about beginning-of-year levels, indicating that while many equity markets have not provided negative returns for the year, dedicated emerging market equity fund managers may have lightened up in their positioning to account for this retreat in assets under management.
However, when the bottom fell out of tax equity markets amidst the financial crisis of 2008 and the resulting recession, many tax equity investors withdrew from projects on the drawing boards and walked away from some projects already underway.
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Bill Gross and Roubini keep making their rounds about how the equity markets are dead, which is not very constructive for those with long-term macro equity plans.
The equity markets have been trending on the cheap side, but the Head of U.S. Equity Strategy at Barclays Capital, Barry Knapp, says four things need to happen in order for equities to trade higher .
If markets were forward-looking, we would expect the benefits of the Olympics to be priced into local equity markets at the time of the announcement.
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To be clear, I do not know of any specific hedge fund that has implemented this strategy, but it is not a wild stretch to fathom that sophisticated investment firms can use small, illiquid derivatives markets (such as CDS on Greek, Italian or Spanish bonds) to potentially impair the broader global equity markets.
Investments flowed into funds on the strength of equity markets and the red-hot commodities and energy markets.
That could also cause equity markets to pull back, which would be supportive for gold.
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The most likely reason for the slide was the lower equity markets in the second quarter.
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The fund currently allocates about 50 percent of assets to the global public equity markets.
Stronger equity markets in turn gave rise to the dramatic development of the U.S. capital markets.
With such weak equity markets, of course, raising capital for most companies was nearly impossible.
The Templeton Emerging Markets Balanced Fund (TAEMX) invests in both emerging markets debt and equity.
The Masters, however, had nothing on the equity markets this week in terms of excitement.
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The proposed IPO of Z Energy comes as investors show a renewed interest in equity markets.
Equity markets fell on the comments, the euro fell and the U.S. dollar rose.
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