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Important notice to Unitholders
Effective on or around 1 April 2026, the Stewart Investors Worldwide All Cap Fund will change to the RQI Global Diversified Alpha Fund.
This will involve the transition of the delegated investment management responsibilities and branding from Stewart Investors to an affiliate investment management team, RQI Investors.
As a result of this transition, the Stewart Investors website will be closed effective on or around 2 April 2026.
All historical AMIT notices and Financial Statements will still be available on the First Sentier Investors website.
Global Emerging Markets (ex China) Leaders
The Global Emerging Markets (ex China) Leaders strategy seeks to invest in 25-45 high-quality companies with exceptional cultures, strong franchises, and resilient financials outside of mainland China. It aims to achieve attractive long-term capital growth and contribute to a more sustainable future across global emerging markets.
It was launched in July 2024, reflecting investor appetite for global emerging market specialist funds without allocations to China, as well as pockets of concern over perceived investment risk and volatility in China.
Leaders simply means that the strategy is focused on companies with a market cap value of at least USD1 billion at the time of investment.
Strategy highlights: a focus on quality and sustainability
- We invest in high-quality companies with exceptional cultures, strong franchises and resilient financials. How we pick companies >
- Our approach is long-term, bottom-up, high conviction and benchmark agnostic
- We focus on capital preservation as well as capital growth – we define risk as the permanent loss of client capital
- Companies must contribute to sustainable development. Portfolio Explorer >
- We avoid companies linked to harmful activities and engage and vote for positive change. Our position on harmful products >
Latest insights
Quarterly updates
Strategy update: Q4 2025
Global Emerging Markets (ex China) Leaders strategy update: 1 October - 31 December 2025
In November 2025, First Sentier Group (FSG) announced a strategic transition of Stewart Investors’ (SI) investment management responsibilities to its affiliate investment team, FSSA Investment Managers (FSSA). This was decided to be in the best interests of our clients, given the significant overlap in SI’s and FSSA’s investment capabilities and our shared history and heritage.
Introducing FSSA Investment Managers
FSSA has been investing in Asia Pacific and Global Emerging Market equities since 1988 as part of the former Stewart Ivory & Company, which subsequently became First State Stewart. After years of organic growth, the First State Stewart team split in two in 2015, leading to the formation of FSSA Investment Managers and Stewart Investors.
Like SI, we are long-term and quality-focused investors. We pay little attention to the index or short-term performance, preferring to focus on generating absolute returns for our clients in the long run. From our research, we aim to construct relatively concentrated portfolios made up of the best ideas that we can find across Asia and emerging markets. As responsible, long-term shareholders, we have integrated sustainability analysis into our investment process and engage extensively with companies on environmental, labour and governance issues.
Following the transition of SI’s portfolios to FSSA, the Stewart Investors Global Emerging Markets Ex-China Leaders portfolio is now being managed by Rasmus Nemmoe and Rizi Mohanty.
Rasmus Nemmoe is a Portfolio Manager at FSSA Investment Managers. He joined the team in 2016 and is the lead manager of the FSSA Global Emerging Markets Focus strategies. Rasmus has more than 20 years of investment experience and is based in Hong Kong.