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Asian and emerging market equities: Where next for investing?
Asian and emerging market equities offer investors diversification benefits, with our strategies focused on ideas in unloved areas of the market. Find out more.
India has become the top performer among emerging Asian countries. NIFTY 50 and BSE SENSEX returned 4.35% and 3.96% YTD, and more encouragingly, rose 79.94% and 81.63% over the past five years, doubling the growth of MSCI All Country World Index.1 The number of firms going public also hit a record high with 184 IPOs being hosted in India this year.1
We are positive about this region and its outlook, considering its comparative advantages in fundamentals and the potential of emerging trends.
India is the fifth largest economy in the world with a GDP of USD3.38 trillion in 2022.2 It is also the fastest growing country in Asia with annualized GDP growth expected to reach 6.5% over the next five years.3
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently upgraded India's growth forecast for 2024 to 6.3% from 6.1% due to stronger-than-expected consumption in the second quarter of 2023. The forecast for 2023 and 2024 remains unchanged at 6.3%.4
Source: International Monetary Fund, October 2023
Source: Bloomberg, 31 October 2023
An active fund of around 70 companies featuring quality growth characteristics in the fastest growing large country in the world.
The investment concerns the acquisition of units in an actively managed fund and not in a given underlying asset.
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1 Bloomberg, 2 November 2023
2 World Bank, 1 July 2023
3 HSBC Global Research, September 2023
4 International Monetary Fund, October 2023
5 Mint, “Does the 4% inflation target need a reset?”, 29 August, 2023
6 Macquarie Research, August 2023
7 Bloomberg, 31 October 2023
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As a large portion of the fund is invested in less developed countries, you should be prepared to accept significantly large fluctuations in the value of the fund. As this fund is invested in a particular country, you should be prepared to accept greater fluctuations in the value of the fund than for a fund with a broader investment mandate. The fund invests in a limited number of holdings and is less diversified. This may result in large fluctuations in the value of the fund.
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