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Asia Pacific Equities: Fund Manager Q&A

In response to recent questions from our clients, we had a conversation with Martin Lau, managing partner and lead portfolio manager for the FSSA Asian Equity Plus and FSSA China Growth strategies.

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Five principles for investing in emerging markets

As long-term, bottom-up investors, our starting point for finding suitable investments is to seek out companies that benefit from structural tailwinds and have clearly-defined competitive advantages.
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India’s economic resurgence amidst the turbulence

Over the last few years, we have been selling many companies which have become expensive. On the other hand, there are still companies that are attractively valued with robust growth ahead.
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Growing headwinds for Asian equities; but we see grounds for longer-term optimism

Lee Kuan Yew, although somewhat a polarising figure, perhaps understood state power and the human condition better than anybody. Consequently, Singapore has often been criticised as much as it has been greatly admired. Irrespectively and without question though, the country has gone from strength to strength.
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Webcast: India – Economic resurgence amidst the turbulence

How will India’s economy evolve over the coming decades? Over the past decade, India has had its fair share of crises and reforms. Despite all that, India’s structural growth story remains unchanged, and it is now the fifth largest economy in the world.
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Japan: focusing on the fundamentals

With global markets declining, led by rising inflation and interest rates, how has Japan fared? Whilst not immune to higher food and energy costs, core inflation in Japan actually remains anaemic.
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FSSAIM - Global Emerging Markets Equities Focus - September 2022

Since we last wrote, roughly three months ago, investors in emerging markets have had to reconcile themselves to a stream of disappointing headlines from several key countries. We are often asked about our own views on politics and macroeconomics, and how we incorporate them into our investment process.
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Fear of missing out

That would perhaps be an accurate description of what drove some of my portfolio decisions as a young fund manager, roughly 15 years ago during the global financial crisis (GFC) meltdown.
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