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Global Emerging Markets All Cap
The Global Emerging Markets All Cap strategy invests in between 30-75 high-quality companies that are contributing to a more sustainable future.
Download overviewOur Global Emerging Markets All Cap strategy was launched in 2009 and invests in between 30 to 75 high-quality companies that are contributing to a more sustainable future. The strategy’s bottom-up approach allows us to find only the very best businesses from an investable universe of some 65,000 companies. We are looking for companies well positioned to contribute to long-term sustainable development; businesses with high quality management teams, franchises, and financials.
Strategy highlights: a focus on quality and sustainability
- Companies must contribute to sustainable development. Portfolio Explorer >
- We invest in high-quality companies with exceptional cultures, strong franchises and resilient financials. How we pick companies >
- We avoid companies linked to harmful activities and engage and vote for positive change. Our position on harmful products >
- 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
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Quarterly updates
Strategy update: Q4 2024
Global Emerging Markets All Cap strategy update: 1 October - 31 December 2024
Emerging markets ended 2024 lagging developed markets for the second year in a row. Whilst the MSCI Emerging Markets Index returned 8.1% (USD, total return), developed markets, measured by the MSCI World Index were up 19.2%, driven by strong performance in the United States. Brazil (-29.5%) and Mexico (-26.8%) both had a tough year in 2024 but China, India and Taiwan all posted positive returns1.
Through the last quarter of 2024, markets had to contend with the re-election of Donald Trump and all the expected geopolitical noise that will come over the next four years, as well as the continuing strength of the US dollar. We remain focused on bottom-up stock picking which is at the core of our portfolio construction process and we will continue to seek out long-term growth opportunities regardless of who is the President in the White House.
We added one new position and sold out of two companies through the quarter. We have built a position in Naver (South Korea: Communication Services), the leading South Korean internet search engine with a very strong market share. It was founded inside Samsung SDS before being spun out on its own in 1999. It is still run by the founder, Lee Hae-jin who has recently brought in a new management team which is aiming to return the company to a path of steady and profitable growth. One key aim for them is to use the stickiness of their search engine client base to drive increased e-commerce down the same channels. Their e-commerce business is the second largest in South Korea2. Naver’s attractive valuation presented a good opportunity to invest in a business that should achieve double-digit earnings growth each year.
We sold out of two positions, one of which is Advanced Energy Solution (Taiwan: Industrials). The company makes battery module units for e-bikes and backup servers and after a tough few years, management announced that they could see light at the end of the tunnel with demand from artificial intelligence (AI) coming through from their server clients. We have repeatedly asked for an update call with management without success. Given this lack of communication, we find it difficult to build conviction and have therefore exited the position. We added to Samsung Electronics (South Korea: Information Technology) and AirTAC International (Taiwan: Industrials) with some of the proceeds of this sale.