Multi-managers: Our latest emerging market calls

MULTI-MANAGERS

Four multi-managers reveal how they are playing opportunities in the emerging market space.

Graham Duce, co-head of multi-manager funds, Aberdeen Asset Management The softness in European demand has constrained the outlook for emerging markets. Looking ahead, they will have to rely more on domestic consumption growth and investment. In general, we expect consumption to be boosted by the cyclical downturn in headline inflation, which continues to support monetary policy easing. Nonetheless, a combination of elevated oil prices and tightening labour market does pose more secular risks to this more benign inflation and growth view. Recent Chinese data has been disappointing. ...