Investec launches global emerging markets bond fund

The fund, managed by Peter Eerdmans, invests across a range of countries including Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Indonesia, Egypt, Nigeria and Russia. Though the fund has only now been made available to the UK retail market, it has a nine month track record. According to Investec, over that period to April 30th it has returned 20.67pc, which the firm said would rank it second in the IMA Global Bond sector. Eerdmans said: “Our process has been developed over 15 years of investing in local emerging markets and been built upon more than 25 years experience in global bond and currency markets. ...