Data from the Emerging Market Private Equity Association (EMPEA) shows India and China have taken 68% of total emerging market private equity investment.
The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world's largest, is pursuing emerging markets in a move to diversify into potentially risker assets.
New research from Deloitte shows that while commercial real-estate deal flow and liquidity are going strong, the longer-term impacts of legislative, regulatory, and accounting reform remains uncertain.
While the economic outlook is seen as dismal among US money management executives, 61% of respondents surveyed by KPMG are looking to add to their firms' headcount over the next year.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has approved a new program for emerging real estate managers who have less than $1 billion of assets under management.
According to a report by consultant McKinsey & Co, global ETF assets under management are expected to grow to as much as $4.7 trillion by the end of 2015.