Emerging Market

  • Investor confidence in EM value drops as gold climbs

    Investor confidence in EM value drops as gold climbs

    Confidence in emerging markets (EM) has declined but investors’ faith in gold has increased, according to the CFA’s latest Valuation Index.

  • Hermes hires senior Asia analyst

    Hermes hires senior Asia analyst

    Hermes has appointed Amit Mehta as director and senior Asia analyst in its emerging markets team.

  • BNY Mellon IM launches EM debt total return fund

    BNY Mellon IM launches EM debt total return fund

    BNY Mellon Investment Management (IM) has launched an emerging market debt total return fund in response to the “demand for a long-only EM debt strategy”.

  • Herd mentality leaving investors blind to value

    Herd mentality leaving investors blind to value

    In his latest commentary, GMO’s Jeremy Grantham warned investors that we could be entering a “market melt-up” phase of the current bull run which, according to many, is looking rather long in the tooth.

  • Mobius announces retirement from Franklin Templeton

    Mobius announces retirement from Franklin Templeton

    Emerging markets pioneer Mark Mobius will be stepping down as executive chairman of the Templeton Emerging Markets Group (TEMG) and formally retire from Franklin Templeton on 31 January.

  • Four managers on emerging markets in 2018

    Four managers on emerging markets in 2018

    Emerging market equities have been a popular topic of discussion when looking ahead to 2018, but is this where investors are headed? Four fund managers outline reasons to remain positive in the emerging and frontier regions next year.

  • Blackrock expands emerging market debt range

    Blackrock expands emerging market debt range

    Blackrock has launched an emerging market short duration bond fund, designed to mitigate interest rate risk.

  • Stewart Investors reverses soft-close on £262m fund

    Stewart Investors reverses soft-close on £262m fund

    The Stewart Investors Indian Subcontinent Fund has reopened to investors for the first time in five years today (Friday).

  • How GEMs have regained their sparkle

    How GEMs have regained their sparkle

    Investors in emerging markets have had quite the turnaround in fortunes during the past three years, proving the old adage that it really is a region to invest in long term.

  • Pacific AM launches emerging market fund

    Pacific AM launches emerging market fund

    Pacific Asset Management (PAM) is launching an emerging market Ucits fund in November.

  • EMs dominate list of ESG-friendly countries

    EMs dominate list of ESG-friendly countries

    There are more emerging economies than developed markets in Candriam’s latest list of investable ESG-friendly countries.

  • EM mania spreads to frontier markets

    EM mania spreads to frontier markets

    Frontier market equities saw the largest net inflows for a very long time in June, suggesting the interest in developing economies’ stock markets is broadening.