This month’s issue examines the opportunities that exist as a result of the “new economy”, where they are and how you can minimise some of the resulting volatility.

Challenger China Share Fund

The Asian growth story and China’s emergence into the outside world remains as compelling as ever. Could now be an opportune time to invest?

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Merrill Lynch International Gold Fund

Gold can be considered an effective diversifier. Gold often performs well when financial markets perform poorly as investment managers look around for ‘insurance’ against financial instability and poor equity performance.

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Macquarie - Globalis BRIC Fund

Emerging markets continue to be the fastest growing economies. We examine Macquarie’s joint venture into the BRIC economies and how you can take part in the fastest growing economies in the world.

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Launch offer – Free Portfolio Healthcheck

Probably the worst thing you can do is sit on an portfolio full of proverbial “dogs” in the hope that they’ll somehow get their act together and produce you the great returns overnight. We’re giving investors the opportunity to get a free report across all their managed fund investments.

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This process is enriching the population of these emerging markets and creating new investment opportunities for the developed world. This is evidenced in the impact on secondary markets such as what we’ve recently seen in the resurgence of commodities following China’s economic awakening.

The question remains as to whether China can continue its run or whether its too heavily reliant on a slowing US economy.

One thing’s for sure, with the increase in globalisation and industrialisation of the emerging