Multi-managers: How we build our emerging markets exposure

Simon Wood, co-head of the multi-manager team at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) Wood holds the £2.8bn Aberdeen Emerging Markets fund, managed by Devan Kaloo and the $93.8m IM Hexam Global Emerging Markets fund, managed by Bryan Collings and Grant Shotter. Wood says together the funds give investors a wide balanced exposure to global emerging markets. He says: “Aberdeen’s fund works well in downside markets, but we get good upside from Hexam. Neither of the funds are constrained, so rather than being just focused on, say India, they give the investor more freedom.” ...