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Emerging Markets - Opinions Pls

colinjd · 2013-05-28 20:41:48

Hi, Doing some research for a portfolio re-balance in the near future and have my eye on one of the following and would welcome anyone's opinion, if you have experience with any of them: Fund - Blackrock EM Equity Tracker - AMC 0.62% - benchmarked to FTSE All-World EM index ETF's - HSBC, iShares & SPDR - 0.60%, 0.75% &…

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IronWolf Posts: 6,462 Forumite

29 May 2013 at 10:19AM

I would agree with james, for emerging markets it is possible to find funds that consistently beat the indices. Unlike something like the FTSE100 index, Emerging Markets is a very broad spectrum and even if a fund manager can choose which country within it will do better, then they will beat the index comfortably.

I am invested in Aberdeen Emerging Markets fund, but they have a 2% intial charge now. There are others around though.

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