GAM's Love: Why we like VARP frontier markets

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Tim Love, investment director for emerging market equities at GAM, explains why the team is biased towards the frontier markets of Vietnam, Argentina, Romania and Pakistan.

2017 promises to be a volatile year given the crowded political agenda ahead. However, with EM equities currently under-owned and looking reasonably valued vis-à-vis their developed market equity counterparts, the asset class is likely to prove a popular investment option this year. Following the election of President Trump, a new world order emerged - investors were forced to grapple with the prospects of stronger inflation, which potentially would mark the end of a multi-year (2010-16) backdrop of deflation, secular stagnation and negative real rate distortions. With developed ec...

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