Growth of fixed asset investment rose to 20.7 percent, fairly close to consensus estimates of 20.6 percent.
The data did show a return to personal consumption in China and a softening of fixed asset investment at least in the near term across the manufacturing, infrastructure and property sectors.
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That stimulus, mostly in the form of fixed asset investments in infrastructure, followed by low interest rates, fueled a hard asset bubble that the Chinese government has been trying to pop since last year.
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"The cleanest example is someone who wants to retire early and had a pension plan but they don't want to start receiving pension payments, " says Boyce Greer, president of Fixed-Income and Asset Allocation, Fidelity Investments.
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.
"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.
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.
Not that you need to deprive yourself of yields if you want to get into fixed-income, an asset class as a whole that has flexed its muscles of late, but you would have had to take on some credit risk.
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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.
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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We buy several types of equity and fixed income funds that span many different asset classes.
Chinese Fixed Asset Investment as a per cent of GDP is massive and unprecedented in history.
One of our major focuses is capturing more flows in the postretirement sector, where fixed income will be a critical part of that asset allocation.
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Industrial output in December rose 10.3 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011, while 2012 non-rural fixed-asset investment climbed 20.6 percent year-over-year, all in line with market expectations.
If you have fixed liabilities not doing well on the asset side of your book, that is fatal.
They can also fill the role of a less-correlated asset for investors with more traditional positions in equities and fixed income.
ETPs are now available for a wide range of equity asset classes, sub-classes, styles and sectors as well as fixed-income, commodity and foreign currency categories on a long and short basis.
Fixed asset investment has expanded by more than 30% in the first five months of 2004, compared to a year-ago.
The global economic downturn, declining exports, and low domestic consumption and fixed asset accumulation, dampened by government austerity measures, resulted in an economic contraction of 6.8% in 2009.
The most significant part of the program is its open-ended nature rather than a fixed amount or time period for its asset purchases.
Certain types of fixed income funds are required to only hold AAA rated debt, but US Treasurys are considered a separate asset class.
Industrial production, retail sales and fixed-asset investment were all up in November, while new home prices rose in 53 out of 70 major cities in China in November, from the previous month.
In fact, any asset class with risk directly tied to developed economies has generally been forgotten in favor of hard assets or fixed income instruments with negative real rates but an abundance of safety.
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One of the two funds that Fernwood will launch this spring will reflect the skills of classic collectors, spreading risk by buying art over eight asset categories and permitting investors to come and go at fixed intervals.
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