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Beyond the bounce: Quality investing in emerging markets

Join Angus Sandison from FSSA Investment Managers to discuss current opportunities in Emerging Markets, the outlook for growth, and why quality businesses and active management remain critical in navigating the regions.

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Asian Growth Update - May 2022

Many people seem to think that money management is about predicting the future. But even with the gift of perfect foresight, the subsequent market reaction to news is often far from obvious.
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Global Emerging Markets Equities Focus - April 2022

Over the past few years, global emerging market (GEM) investors have dealt with a series of challenges, including a surging pandemic, local lockdowns and widespread travel restrictions.
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Global Emerging Markets Equities Focus - March 2022

In almost every meeting that we have with management teams, we will ask about incentivisation. In our view, it is an important question and the answer can be highly revealing about an organisation’s culture and behaviour.
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Tapping into the rise of the Asian consumer

As Asian countries become richer, they have been transitioning towards consumption-based economies, translating higher per capita income into increased spending across goods and services.
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Global Emerging Markets Equities update - September 2021

Since our last update, global markets have not been short of action and the manic behaviour characterising today’s markets has taken investors on another rollercoaster ride. While not quite comparable to the market movements seen during the dark days of March 2020, the recent correction — especially in China-related companies — has been notable.
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Riding out the turbulence with our North Star

As the world continues to lurch from Covid-surges to reflexive and localised lock-downs, everybody is now looking through to a mythical status quo ante bellum – the before-Covid-times, when the world was just hunky-dory.
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Asian Growth Update - June 2021

Though Covid hasn’t yet finished with us, the markets have finished with Covid. In real life, there is still plenty of misery to go around, but in our opinion things have seldom been better for investors.
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There's more than a label: focus on powerful structural themes

As many economies have bounced back from the worst of the pandemic, concerns about central banks, the rate of money-printing and inflation have returned. Markets have responded to the arrival of better times by selling off bonds and bond-like equities.
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Company engagement helps to improve worker protections

Top Glove is one company identified as part of this engagement as having high exposure to modern slavery risk in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company is the world’s largest manufacturer of rubber gloves, specialising in examination, surgical, household and industrial gloves.
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