Schroder plays emerging market commodity theme with fund launch

Schroders is giving investors an additional way to play on the demand for resources and agriculture w...

Schroders is giving investors an additional way to play on the demand for resources and agriculture with the launch of the ISF Global Emerging Market Equity Commodity fund. Run by head of emerging market equities Allan Conway and Robert Davy, who also runs the Global Emerging Markets fund, it will invest solely in emerging market commodity stocks. Conway said: “Demand and supply of commodities is increasingly an emerging market story. Production of commodities such as copper, aluminium and steel is increasingly coming from the developing world, whilst demand from emerging market countrie...