Emerging markets

GLOBAL EMERGING MARKETS

It has been fashionable for many months to claim China and the emerging market countries have outgrown their strength.

ON EMERGING MARKETS

Former Gartmore emerging market manager Anthony Cheung has joined Pictet Asset Management to work on the group's Asia total return portfolios.

Multi-managers at OPM Fund Management are targeting funds in emerging markets and energy sectors in the recently-launched Worldwide Opportunities fund.

JO Hambro Capital Management's newest offering, Global Emerging Markets Opportunities fund, will have a large-cap bias and adopt the top-down approach the managers used in their in their previous roles at Barings.

Emerging economies outstripping developed nations with the pace of their economic expansion must take more action to combat inflation or risk overheating, the influential World Bank has said.

Henderson Global Investors is set to unveil its EM currency portfolio, the Henderson Horizon Emerging Markets Currency fund, at the end of August.

Managers from HSBC, Aberdeen, Lazard and other top groups give us their views.

Mark Gordon-James, senior investment manager at Aberdeen, reveals his top five stockpicks in the EM smaller companies sector.