Emerging Market Equity Investing | Aberdeen Investments

Why invest in emerging market equities

Long-term growth potential

Emerging markets are no longer a peripheral story – they're central to the next cycle of global innovation. For long-term investors, exposure to these structural trends can provide a powerful source of growth potential.

Forefront of global change

Emerging markets account for the majority of the world’s population, with rising incomes and rapid urbanisation transforming spending patterns. This creates a long-term tailwind for emerging market companies and economies.

Diversification potential

Emerging markets provide genuine diversification amid increasingly concentrated returns. Growth is driven by different forces – demographics, domestic demand, the energy transition and structural reforms – we look to give investors access to a broad, diverse range of sectors and countries beyond a single theme.

Why Aberdeen for emerging markets

On-the-ground expertise

We’ve been investing in emerging market equities for over four decades with local teams meeting companies every day – so we’re not relying on headlines, we’re seeing what’s really happening on the ground.

Connected global team

Our teams are constantly sharing insights and challenging each other. Paired with deep company-level research we are able to spot change early and invest with real conviction in the best long-term opportunities.

We don’t just invest, we engage

We spend time with the companies we invest in – challenging them, supporting them and helping improve standards where we can. ESG analysis is embedded in our investment process. That’s how we think about managing risk and building long-term value.

What we offer in emerging market equities

A comprehensive range of strategies from core emerging market equities, smaller companies and sustainability-focused strategies so you can access different parts of the opportunity set depending on your goals.

Emerging Markets Smaller Companies

A strategy focusing on smaller companies across emerging economies.

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Emerging Markets Income

A strategy focused on providing a balanced portfolio of profitable growth and sustainable value across emerging markets.

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Emerging Markets ex-China Equity

Providing emerging market exposure without China, increasing exposure to opportunities across the rest of the emerging markets universe.

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Emerging Markets SDG Equity

An approach to emerging markets which focuses on a dual outcome by investing in companies that align to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Risk warning

The value of investments, and the income from them, can go down as well as up and an investor may get back less than the amount invested. Past performance is not a guide to future results.