Part one: Emerging markets: Fund stars ride out the storm
Profiles of the leading emerging markets investors
EVEN THOUGH SHARE prices have collapsed and there are abundant opportunities throughout the emerging world, asset manager Aberdeen is wary of valuation traps. "The quality of the business is the priority, valuations are secondary," says Mark Gordon-James, investment manager on Aberdeen’s emerging market equity team.
Aberdeen’s careful approach was rewarded in March. Hargreaves Lansdown dropped Mark Mobius’s Templeton global emerging market fund from its Wealth 150 list. Instead, Mark Dampier, head of research at Hargreaves, said that Aberdeen’s emerging market fund "has the potential to deliver superior returns".
Valuation play or Armageddon
"Russia is very high risk and companies are high risk – we wouldn’t hold those businesses at any valuation," says Gordon-James.
In contrast to the other Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China),...
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