Audrey Kaplan, co-head of international equity at Federated and manager of the Federated Global Equity Fund (FGLEX) says she is still not adding to her positions in the big emerging markets.
The largest holding, at 4.9%, is the Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Diversified Equity Income fund.
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But there is a limit to how much TPG's global private-equity fund will commit to real estate.
Jeffrey Leonard, president of the Global Environment Fund, a private equity firm that invests in clean-technology ventures, echoes these sentiments.
The week ending February 27 saw EPFR global-tracked bond funds outpace equity fund flows by the biggest margin in 14 weeks as retail investors pulled money out of the latter for the first time this year.
On Tuesday Global X launched a new equity exchange-traded fund that attempts to achieve high correlation to crude oil spot prices.
We like the combination of income with growth and it is an important factor in our stock selection process for the Global Resources Fund, as well as our other equity funds.
The private-equity firm is projecting a 12% return for its global fund that completed raising money near the peak of the market in 2007, according to New Jersey.
Equity mutual fund inflows tracked by Cambridge, Mass based EPFR Global hit a five-year high during the first full week of January as retail commitments hit their highest level since 2009.
The fund currently allocates about 50 percent of assets to the global public equity markets.
Similar to its global and European funds, the new Asia fund will have flexibility to invest equity in all types of properties and to buy debt, say people who have been briefed on the fund.
Mr. Wang said long-term investments, including direct investments, private equity, infrastructure and real estate, now account for more than half of the fund's global portfolio, with the rest in public-market securities.
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