Profiles of the leading emerging markets investors

Chloe Hayward

April 03, 2009

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Aberdeen, Mark Gordon-James, investment manager

Aberdeen, Mark Gordon-James, investment manager
Devan Kaloo runs global emerging markets at Aberdeen. Investment fund manager Mark Gordon-James, works with Kaloo. The portfolio picks are driven by bottom-up fundamentals. The portfolio turnover has increased 10% in recent months but certain defensive themes continue to run through the fund.
Aberdeen Emerging Markets Fund (January 31 2009)
Fund size	£436.6 million, 64 holdings
Sector overweights	financials (25%), consumer staples (13.2%), energy (12.6%)
Country overweights	Brazil (15.6%), India (12%)
Country underweights	Russia (2.2%), China (6.3%)
Interesting picks	Massmart, Femsa, Lojas Renner
Lead picks	Samsung, Vale, China Mobile

Baring Asset Management, James Syme, head of emerging markets

Baring Asset Management, James Syme, head of emerging markets
Baring runs a mixture of top-down country allocation work from London. These picks are then populated by regional research teams. The picks are more driven by fundamentals than valuations.

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