Robeco has become the latest asset manager to launch an emerging markets ex-China equities fund, which allows investors to calibrate their China exposure separately.
The Dutch firm said the fund offers investors a more "balanced" exposure to EM markets, in light of China's significant market size, current dominance in EM portfolios, and specific factors such as geopolitics and regulatory policy that could affect performance. The Article 8 strategy enables investors to carve out China from their EM allocation and gain more exposure to smaller EM economies under-represented in the main index, such as Korea, Taiwan and Brazil. Number of managers with global emerging markets ex-China strategies rises fifteenfold in six years With a portfolio compo...
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