The investment objective of the Emerging Markets Fund is to grow the real value of investors’ capital and income. Investments will primarily be in companies operating or incorporated in developing countries. An equal emphasis will be placed on the generation of income and on capital growth.
The fund may invest in any geographical area and any economic sector. In accordance with the firm’s ethical principles, the fund has no investments in tobacco companies or companies directly involved in the development of arms.
The fund holds a portfolio of direct investments in a diversified range of emerging market equities. Individual investments and geographic allocations are continually evaluated and adjustments are made according to the relative merits of each holding and the opportunities offered by different international markets.
The fund is structured as an authorised unit trust. Its structure provides investors with certain institutional safeguards and simplicity of administration. Investors will gain access, through the fund, to a portfolio that may be impractical to assemble themselves. Furthermore, as no tax is suffered on capital gains realised within the fund, there are no tax constraints on active management of fund holdings and individuals benefit from the deferral of tax on capital gains (if any) until the point at which capital is withdrawn.
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Perhaps the most promising trend favouring investment in developing economies has been the widespread implementation of reform programmes to boost growth and productivity. In the short term entrenched local interests may resist individual measures, but there is a broad political impetus in this direction across many different countries. This is a key factor in ensuring that economic growth remains superior to that elsewhere.
However, the immediate outlook for emerging markets is more difficult. Rising interest rates across the globe look set to impact investment spending and consumption. A higher oil price is hurting large net importers, including China and India. In the past developing markets have proved vulnerable to rises in the US dollar, and the recent strength of the currency has contributed to the negative sentiment evident this year.
Political factors have compounded these economic headwinds. President Trump's 'America First' policy is likely to prove very damaging to global commerce, and prospect of a trade war between China and the USA is an alarming one for investors, particularly as the Chinese economy is already slowing. Turkey is facing a full-blown political crisis as the re-elected President Erdogan battles US trade sanctions and attempts to face down international markets by refusing to raise interest rates to defend a plummeting currency. The election of a populist president in Mexico may lead to a testing period for the country which has to accommodate high expectations for change at the same time as stabilising the NAFTA agreement with the USA. All of these issues have the potential to ripple beyond local borders and provoke international selling of investments in developing markets.
Nevertheless, global growth is still strong, offsetting these short-term difficulties, and emerging economies should continue to benefit from this positive background. Looking beyond the present volatility, developing markets have better growth prospects than their developed counterparts. Long-term investors should be well rewarded with a selective approach.
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