Northern Trust: instos seek Asia tilt in EM portfolios

While Asia-Pacific institutional investors have moved to broadly diversify their global exposure this year, their peers in the West have been adopting a stronger Asia tilt in their emerging-market portfolios. So said Wayne Bowers, chief executive and chief investment officer for international markets at passive investment specialist Northern Trust Global Investments, speaking to AsianInvestor last month. Now that global investors “have got their EM bucket filled”, he said, “they…