Simon Lue-Fong, head of global emerging debt at Pictet Asset Management, believes the asset class will outperform this year, driven by strong local currency appreciation.
Castlestone Management is looking to expand its range of equity mandates with the launch of a specialist frontier emerging markets fund, as well as a UCITS version of its Next 11 fund.
The Aberdeen Emerging Markets Smaller Companies trust will be overweight domestic growth stocks when it launches next month.
Baillie Gifford Emerging Markets Growth has shrunk by 15% following poor performance since the group announced plans to soft-close the fund.
JO Hambro Capital Management has acquired a Singapore-based boutique with the view to launch two Asian equity retail funds by late September, subject to regulatory approval.
Allianz's Michael Konstantinov is reversing the bias towards Russia and energy stocks he introduced in November last year to shift back into China, Brazil and India.
Western's EMD specialist talks about his approach to investing in nascent markets