SLI launches fourth EMD fund for House

Standard Life Investments has launched its fourth emerging market debt fund for Richard House and Kieran Curtis.

The new Emerging Market Debt Unconstrained fund complements the existing emerging market hard currency and local currency debt funds, and the Emerging Market Corporate Bond SICAV. The managers will be able to invest across over 70 countries in both hard and local currency sovereign debt and emerging market corporates. The investment approach will be highly selective, building a portfolio of best ideas from each segment of the asset class, irrespective of a benchmark weighting. House (pictured), head of emerging markets fixed income at the group, said: "The EMD asset allocation deci...