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This is a financial promotion for The First Sentier Emerging Markets Debt Strategy. This information is for professional clients only in the EEA and elsewhere where lawful. Investing involves certain risks including:
- The value of investments and any income from them may go down as well as up and are not guaranteed. Investors may get back significantly less than the original amount invested.
- Credit risk: the issuers of bonds or similar investments that the Fund buys may get into financial difficulty and may not pay income or repay capital to the Fund when due. Interest rate risk: bond prices have an inverse relationship with interest rates such that when interest rates rise, bonds may fall in value. Rising interest rates may cause the value of your investment to fall.
- Emerging market risk: Emerging markets tend to be more sensitive to economic and political conditions than developed markets. Other factors include greater liquidity risk, restrictions on investment or transfer of assets, failed/delayed settlement and difficulties valuing securities.
- Charges to capital risk: The fees and expenses may be charged against the capital property. Deducting expenses from capital reduces the potential for capital growth.
- Below investment grade risk: below investment grade debt securities are speculative and involve a greater risk of default and price changes than investment grade debt securities. In periods of general economic difficulty, the market prices of these types of securities may decline significantly.
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If you are in any doubt as to the suitability of our funds for your investment needs, please seek investment advice.
Jamie Grant
Head of Emerging Markets Debt and Asian Fixed Income
Access fast growing and diverse economies
Emerging or developing markets have more opportunity to grow their economies (coming from a lower base). There is potential for more upside for investors relative to developed markets. These countries – and their investment universes – continue to grow and evolve and this creates opportunities for excess returns and diversification.
Why invest with us?
Diversified exposure to emerging markets: our strategy is to invest in sovereign, quasi sovereign and corporate bonds. Our investment process gives us flexibility to choose where opportunities are available in the market to generate returns for our clients.
Tailored portfolios: designed specifically for our clients, all of whom have different needs. We build collaborative relationship with our clients in order to achieve their investment objectives.
A proven track record: over the last decade, we have successfully navigated market cycles and idiosyncratic country turning points. Not only this, our active investment style and focus on risk management means we’ve been able to offer protection on the downside.
ESG integration: Specific country and corporate ESG considerations are an essential part of our in-house research .
Why we are watching mispricing in Turkey
Turkey’s economic recovery was materially impacted by the pandemic. Once the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic gained some ground, Turkey started to ease the restrictions imposed since mid-March. Data released by the Ministry of Health towards the end of June was encouraging, with the number of new cases and daily casualties having peaked and with recoveries on an upward trend. Success against the pandemic and early start of the normalization process proved to be positive as the budget deficit slowed.
Caution remains and fairly so, given the risk of a second wave of cases following the easing of restrictions. Any economic recovery will likely have been hampered by the weakness of external demand until Turkey’s export markets, in particular Europe, recovered. The future of tourism – a key industry for both the official and grey economy – depends on the global success against the pandemic and the easing in global travel.
We have taken advantage of opportunities in Turkey during periods of mispricing. The country’s bonds have been volatile and investment discipline has been necessary. Market technicals, valuations, a belief in the strength of Turkey’s institutions and geo-politics have been drivers for our recent positioning.
Meanwhile, credit fundamentals require a strong focus. Access to USD liquidity and net foreign assets of the central bank are key considerations. A sharp reversal in Turkey’s current account positon from a weaker currency is normally the path to growth for the country. However, the pandemic’s hit to global growth and fiscal shocks for Turkey mean we remain cautious until the budget deficit is controlled and the Turkish currency stabilises without on-going reduction of USD reserves.
How we invest in Emerging Markets Debt
Team
Jamie Grant
Mark Bodon
Bilal Khan
Jan-Markus May
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