Emerging markets

The case for investing in emerging market equities as part of a diversified global portfolio remains compelling

Last year was a stellar year for emerging equity markets.

Old Broad Street Research has award the Absolute Insight Emerging Market Debt fund an A rating.

Investors have an average weighting of just 0.1% in emerging markets (EM) despite almost two thirds of IFAs considering it the best performing asset class, research suggests.

The leadership of global economic growth has shifted to emerging markets, especially those in Asia, according to Invesco chief economist, John Greenwood.

With fund flows recently seeing a recovery, the trend in UK stock markets has seen home investors shifting their bias into emerging markets. Is this just a drop in the ocean or the start of torrential investment downpour?

GAM has launched a Ucits III emerging market debt and currency fund, managed by Pharo Global Advisors.

GLG Partners has extended its '1 and 20' charging structure to include its Global Emerging Markets fund.

Fund managers have sought to downplay the potential fallout from the Dubai debt crisis on both their holdings and the global economic recovery.

Managers Paul Wimborne and James Syme attribute top-quartile figures to their top-down country selection process