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Our capabilities

Equities

Ashmore’s equity team is comprised of 39 investment professionals focused on a broad range of emerging market equity opportunities across global emerging markets, regions and single countries.

Ashmore’s equity team is comprised of 39 investment professionals focused on a broad range of emerging market equity opportunities across global emerging markets, regions and single countries. The team also leverage a wealth of global dedicated emerging markets expertise across Fixed Income and Alternative teams.

Governance, communication and insight sharing at Ashmore is structured around weekly investment committees. The Global Investment Committee focuses on top-down macroeconomic drivers and politics and is the formal body where global insights are shared. This enables all strategies to leverage Ashmore’s significant experience and network of contacts developed over three decades of investing in Emerging Markets. The Equity Investment Committee provides governance and risk management oversight and is also where the current focus of research among our equity themes are communicated. Ashmore’s Shared Research Framework further facilitates the collaboration of research.  Each equity theme is managed by a Sub-Investment Committee which is accountable for its respective investment process and strategy outcome.

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Our investment approach

The equities investment process

The Investment Committee collectively manages all portfolios and meets formally on a weekly basis to review markets, determine our investment strategy, and manage portfolios. In addition, interim meetings may be held depending on market conditions.

Our equities themes

Please note that some of these investment themes may not be available through mutual funds in your country.
Active

EM Active

Top down driven stock portfolio targeting high alpha across market environments.
All cap

EM All Cap

EM portfolio of best in class companies employing a systematic process to target high alpha.
Frontier

EM Frontier

A ‘portfolio of everything you do not already own’ providing diversification and return advantages.
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Six risks of employing an ACWI manager to invest in Emerging Market equities

The growing importance of Emerging Markets (EM) has spawned a range of approaches for asset allocators to consider. One such is to rely on All Country World Index (ACWI) investment managers who will consider the EM opportunity in conjunction with Developed Markets (DM). However, such an approach is suboptimal, indeed a high-risk strategy, in our opinion.