European-domiciled emerging market (EM) funds have seen a spectacular turnaround in fortunes since the start of 2018, with inflows up €14.5bn (£12.8bn) during January to reach €11.4bn of assets under management, according to Morningstar data.
International politics is regularly in the spotlight and has historically been known to affect emerging markets. With several elections coming up across the region, four managers at Hermes Investment Management assess the potential impact on asset classes and how investors can prepare for the risks.
Franklin Templeton Investments has launched a Templeton Emerging Markets (EM) Local Currency Bond fund.
Confidence in emerging markets (EM) has declined but investors’ faith in gold has increased, according to the CFA’s latest Valuation Index.
Carlos Hardenberg, lead manager for the Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEMIT), has resigned but will remain as portfolio manager until 31 March 2018.
Hermes has appointed Amit Mehta as director and senior Asia analyst in its emerging markets team.
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”.
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.
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.
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 has launched an emerging market short duration bond fund, designed to mitigate interest rate risk.
The Stewart Investors Indian Subcontinent Fund has reopened to investors for the first time in five years today (Friday).
