Bác Mark nhà đầu tư huyền thoại đã nói thế hôm thứ 6 vừa rồi, các bác nào lỡ bác khống bảo trọng! Cho các bác thông tin, Templeton giải ngân khoảng 2 tỉ Mĩ Kim vào Romania, còn Việtnam mới có 440 Mio thôi, các bác sẽ biết nó muốn gì rồi chứ
FUND VIEW-Templeton's Mobius sees bargains in Vietnam, Romania
Trade the News
Friday September 03, 2010 08:08:07 PM GMT
TEMPLETON/ (FUND VIEW)
* Fund in Romania accounts 20% of stock market cap in country
* Mobius oversees
$40 billion in assets
* No asset bubble in Asian shares, but volatility to stay
* Mobius denies talk he'll step down or is picking successor
By Chikafumi Hodo
TOKYO, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Templeton Asset Management's Mark Mobius said on Friday he sees big bargain-hunting opportunities in Vietnam and Romania due to good growth prospects, with a large potential in their equity markets.
Mobius, a prominent emerging markets fund manager who oversees about
$40 billion in assets, said he does not see an asset bubble appearing in Asian shares, but investors should watch out for volatility and instability in emerging economies.
The fund manager oversees the Romanian government's compensation fund -- Fondul Proprietatea -- with a size of 4 billion euro (
$5.13 billion) in assets, or about 20 percent of the market capitalisation of Romania's stock market.
"We'll be investing probably most heavily in raw materials, oil, gas as well as electric power, because of big demand for electric power in the country," Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, told a news conference.
The Romanian fund is diversified, with the largest holdings in oil companies. The fund also invests in gas and gas transmission companies and property firms, he said.
Templeton is also looking to invest steadily in Vietnam, Mobius said.
"Vietnam's stock market is now down from the peak in '07 and there is a good opportunity now because of low prices," he said.
Mobius said Vietnam's population is increasing by 1 percent a year and the country's stock market is growing at a good pace.
Vietnam has a weighting of 7 percent in the Templeton Frontier Markets Fund, with total assets under management of
$442.45 million as of July 31.
The fund sharply outperformed the benchmark over the past year, producing a return of 21.8 percent against the benchmark of 4.8 percent.
"We've been investing in a pretty wide variety of companies (in Vietnam). Liquidity is very difficult and small, so it takes patience," Mobius said.
He said he has been looking at property and harbour firms.
The fund manger was in Vietnam last week to also look at furniture companies.
Templeton does not see an asset bubble occurring in Asian shares, but sees it as hard to avoid volatility in emerging markets.
Investors must be ready for volatility and must be patient, Mobius said.
"We try to encourage people to buy when things look bad when markets are down, because as you can see the recoveries in these bear markets can be very rapid," he said.
Mobius denied a rumour that he was planning to retire or in the process of picking his successor.
The flamboyant fund manager, who was wearing a white suit, autographed "manga" comic books on himself and distributed them to reporters at the news conference.
The manga, published in Japan three years ago and translated into English, Chinese and Arabic among other languages, sells for 1,600 yen (
$19), a company official said. (
$1=.7797 Euro;
$1=84.27 Yen) (Reporting by Chikafumi Hodo; Editing by Michael Watson)
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