Emerging market funds: New skills for new markets

SW Asset Management, a new fixed-income fund, is demonstrating its enthusiasm for emerging market firms by investing in their debt and exploring the credit default swap market. Dominic O’Neill reports.

Emerging market funds: Old friends

THE WEST IS increasingly passé as a destination for investment. The financial crisis and the recession have further underlined the limits to growth in the developed world and the opportunities available in Asia and Latin America. It is no longer just a story of businesses in rich countries transferring capital to these regions by outsourcing labour or buying natural resources, domestic consumption is on the up in the Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China).

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