Emerging markets

Launched in February 2008, the £127m Jupiter India fund has significantly outperformed its peers in the IMA Specialist sector over the past year, up 100.4% to January 11, compared to the sector average of 40.4%.

With some justification, investors took an increasingly positive view of the prospects for most Asian markets last year.

Martin Currie is to launch a UK domiciled open-ended China fund to be run by James Chong on 10 March.

As 2008 rolled into 2009, global investors were still recovering from the most traumatic of years, felt most acutely perhaps in 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?