Our Sustainable Emerging Markets fund offers the opportunity to benefit from the unprecedented growth potential of emerging markets economies while allowing a sustainability overlay.  Companies in emerging markets (Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa) are faced with a growing demand to display and implement internationally accepted sustainable governance and performance within their operations. They are also encouraged to answer the sustainability challenges with innovative solutions which create long-term opportunities for investors.

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Emerging markets will remain the main engines for growth in 2011.

The stock selection process consists of two major phases: sustainability analysis and emerging markets financial analysis.

In order to optimally assess the sustainability of companies across emerging markets, we have developed a rigorous and specific in-house emerging markets SRI analysis, illustrated below. It takes into account the emerging markets’ less developed market structure, companies‘ less transparent disclosure and investors’ relative lack of experience with this type of asset.

For a more detailed description of each step, please click on the blue building boxes. 

Based on the results of the above three steps, the SRI Universe of emerging markets’ companies is defined.

Then, following the recommendations of our emerging markets financial experts, we compose a portfolio with stocks of this emerging markets SRI universe. Since the special features and varied characteristics of the emerging markets require a broader approach that takes into account the political, macro- and microeconomic issues of each market in the investment universe, the financial strategy combines a top-down analysis (at macroeconomic, country or sector level), a thematic approach (over the long and medium terms) and a bottom-up selection of individual stocks. The funds are managed by our Emerging Markets specialists, who have a long-standing investment experience in these markets.