Global Emerging Markets

At Investment Week's recent Global Emerging Markets Focus, we caught up with four emerging market managers to hear about opportunities and potential concerns for investors in these countries.

Michael Konstantinov, the manager of the £533m Allianz BRIC Stars fund, reveals his five predictions for the trends set to dominate emerging markets in 2013.

Global Emerging Markets was the best-selling IMA sector for the first time ever in October, the latest sales figures reveal.

Standard life Investments has expanded its GEM range with the launch of an offshore Global Emerging Markets Unconstrained fund for Ross Teverson.

J.P. Morgan's Austin Forey is upping his exposure to Indian equities despite admitting the region's poor performance had impacted the fund this year.

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Michael Godfrey, co-manager of the M&G Global Emerging Markets and M&G Asian funds, has left to pursue other opportunities after eight years at the group.

Neptune's Robin Geffen has moved nearly half of his £950m Global Equity fund into US equities, his largest ever exposure to the region.

Mirabaud Asset Management has hired Daniel Tubbs, former co-head of BlackRock's global emerging markets team, to run an emerging markets equity fund.

Aberdeen Asset Management is moving to limit inflows into its EM fund range, including Devan Kaloo's £6bn Global Emerging Markets Equity and £2.7bn Emerging Markets funds.