Kepler launches long-only emerging markets fund

$69m external seed capital

Kepler Partners has launched a new long-only emerging market equity fund, raising $69m of external seed capital, Investment Week has learned.

KLS Corinium Emerging Markets Equity is the seventh fund to be added to the firm's alternative UCITS platform, which now counts $2bn in assets under management. The fund, which will be managed by CIO Ed Butchart and the Emerging Markets team, will contain 30 to 35 equities from across the emerging markets.  This is the seventh fund on the KLS Platform and the second to be run by the Kepler Emerging Markets team, meant to complement the more defensive ‘all-weather' KLS Emerging Markets fund that began in 2017. It will be classified as an Article 8 fund under the sustainable finance ...