An attractive investment solution

Accessing emerging markets through an investment trust offers investors and managers greater flexibility from a liquidity perspective

The failure of emerging markets to implode amid a period of rising global risk aversion this summer only serves to re-emphasise that the fundamentals of both sovereign risk and corporate performance have improved dramatically over recent years in the asset class. This is evident in higher sovereign ratings, record-high returns on earnings and, crucially for investors, the multi-year outperformance of emerging markets equity. Moreover, in view of the fact that global central banks have responded to the downside pressures emanating from the sub-prime crisis, emerging markets appear the logic...