Fund selectors: How we are gaining exposure to Asia through specialist funds and wider emerging market vehicles

Boosting profile in the region

Tom Eckett speaks to three fund selectors about the specialist and generalist funds that make up their Asia weightings in portfolios and the attractions of investing in the region.

Tony Lawrence, investment manager at 7IM We like Asia and so on the multi-manager side we hold specialist Asia managers, each with a slightly different style and approach. We like playing GEMs through Asia and using Asia specialist managers in that space. We want to implement our preference for Asia over LATAM because of the growth story in the region. Asia is the place you want to focus on in emerging markets. The Mirae Asset Asia Great Consumer Equity fund is a strategy we like as it is geared into the demographic changes in Asia, including an increase in the disposable wealth of ...