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Busy week to end with Ashmore update, data flurry from China
Friday's releases will give an overview on how emerging markets are doing
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Ashmore Investment Management Limited is one of the world's leading investment managers dedicated to emerging markets with a history of consistently outperforming the market. Ashmore focuses on a number of investment themes including dollar debt, local currency, special situations (incorporating distressed debt and private equity) corporate high yield and equity.
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Friday's releases will give an overview on how emerging markets are doing
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Analysts at Shore Capital said they thought the risk/reward profile for the investment manager's current share price was "unfavourable"
Emerging markets have outperformed developed markets during the pandemic and are poised for further growth
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“Subject to the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, the overall picture therefore supports continued superior growth by emerging countries"
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Assets under management increased by US$7.5bn to US$93bn in the three months to end-December
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AUM increased by 2.3% to US$85.5bn over the past quarter, following a 9% reduction in the previous 12-month period
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Performance of the group’s funds was impacted by the fall in global markets in its third quarter, but the investment manager said its processes generated “significant alpha” in the recovery
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The UK's top share index finished the day ahead by over 28 points at 6,032, aided by the weaker sterling, which shed 0.24% against the US dollar
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On the corporate front, Ashmore Group’s full-year results may be of extra interest for investors with an interest in emerging markets
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"It is increasingly apparent that the emerging markets in aggregate are less likely to suffer a recession as severe as that in the developed world," said CEO Mark Coombs
In the UK, the analysts like platform businesses such as Hargreaves Lansdown and St James's Place
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Analysts expect Ashmore to continue posting negative quarterly results, after the three months to March saw a US$3.6bn outflows
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With Ashmore funds generally underperforming falling benchmarks in the period analysts at Shore Capital said the investment performance was “materially worse than we had expected”
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Even though emerging markets have been volatile, returns have remained good
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There is a "significant relative value and the diversity of investment opportunities" in emerging markets, said chief executive Mark Coombs
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A stronger US dollar affected local currency and equity returns, while the US Treasury rally supported external debt pricing
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“The main risks relate to the US and the impact that its confrontational trade policy and slowing domestic growth will have on the broader global economy”
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The UK's premier share index closed 11.17 points higher, at 7,282.34. Over the week as a whole, a busy one if you like UK political drama, it added 1.04%
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The jobs report comes with investors anticipating a Federal Reserve rate cut in September of 25 basis points
Global market conditions improved through the quarter as US/China trade tensions eased, central banks in Europe and the US turned more dovish and the US dollar weakened.