Emerging markets: Fund managers do battle in commodity minefield

In the second part of Euromoney’s emerging market equity fund manager profiles, Chloe Hayward talks to seven managers and hears what history has taught them and how they plan to find their way through the minefield of commodity-linked stock markets, notably in eastern Europe.

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.

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