BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust (BRFI) | Backing the next wave of global development
BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust (BRFI) offers a highly differentiated proposition for emerging markets investors, avoiding the largest markets – which between them tend to account for around 90% of global emerging markets investment – in favour of less researched and often faster-growing countries at an earlier stage of development. Co-managers Sam Vecht, Emily Fletcher and Sudaif Niaz, backed by BlackRock's deep and broad research resources, blend top-down and bottom-up considerations to find investment opportunities in smaller emerging and frontier markets worldwide. The result is a unique global portfolio that has delivered attractive risk-adjusted returns, backed up by compelling valuations and a higher-than-average dividend yield (currently 4.8%). The trust posted another year of strong returns in FY24 (ended 30 September), and NAV and share price total returns are comfortably ahead of the average of its peers in the AIC Global Emerging Markets (GEM) sector over three, five and 10 years to end-January 2025. While more generalist funds have seen something of a resurgence in the past 12 months in response to stimulus measures in China, BRFI's absolute returns remain solidly in double digits, and its differentiated and diversified portfolio is well positioned to continue to perform in an environment where US tariffs could have a negative impact on some of the larger markets in the EM space.BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust is an investment trust and its principal activity is portfolio investment. Co. invests in the securities of companies domiciled or listed in, or exercising the predominant part of their economic activity in, Frontier Markets. Investment may also be made in the securities of companies domiciled or listed in, or exercising the predominant part of their economic activity in, more developed markets but with significant business operations in Frontier Markets. BlackRock Fund Managers Limited (BFM) is Co.'s Alternative Investment Fund Manager, and BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited is Co.'s Investment Manager under a delegation agreement with BFM.
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