With a diversified portfolio of companies based or operating in some of the world's least developed economies and/or capital markets, BRFI is the only investment trust offering global exposure to frontier markets, and as such is the obvious choice for investors who believe that today's underdeveloped markets could be the economic powerhouses of tomorrow. The increasingly fractured geopolitical backdrop presents an uncorrelated value opportunity in countries that are not aligned with either east ...
Emerging and frontier markets are home to more than 85% of the world's population and generate over 40% of global GDP, yet make up only a small fraction of investors' portfolios. Allocations to these less developed – and generally faster-growing – economies have suffered in the era of tech-centred US exceptionalism, yet some of the world's most dominant technology companies are based in emerging markets. While Donald Trump's ‘Liberation Day' tariffs have sparked negative headlines regarding expo...
A director at Blackrock Frontiers Investment Tst bought 15,000 shares at 157p and the significance rating of the trade was 53/100. Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision? This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following. Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all the company's directors over the last t...
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 f...
BlackRock Frontiers posted another year of strong returns in FY23 (ended 30 September) and has continued to outperform into 2024, with NAV and share price total returns over one, three, five and 10 years to end-January 2024 comfortably beating the average of its peers in the AIC Global Emerging Markets sector. The trust offers a highly differentiated proposition, avoiding the eight largest emerging markets, which between them tend to account for around 90% of GEM investment. Instead, co-managers...
Although the UK now represents a paltry 3.5-4.0% of global equity indices, home bias in the domestic stock market is estimated at c 25% across institutional and retail investors. This persists across asset classes: in the Investment Association universe of open-ended funds, 28.1% of total AUM at the end of September 2023 was invested in UK sectors. This leaves a significant amount of investors' assets exposed to overseas markets that may be unfamiliar and harder to access. In such a situation, t...
BlackRock Frontiers (BRFI) is the only investment trust offering a diversified portfolio of companies in some of the world's smallest and fastest-growing emerging markets. Launched in December 2010, the trust has outperformed global emerging markets peers over one, three, five and 10 years. 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 assess investment opportunities in over 40 smalle...
Ford Equity International Research Reports cover 60 countries with over 30,000 stocks traded on international exchanges. A proprietary quantitative system compares each company to its peers on proven measures of business value, growth characteristics, and investor behavior. Ford's three recommendation ratings buy, hold and sell, represent each stock’s return potential relative to its own country market.. The rating reports which are generated each week, include the fundamental details behind...
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