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Emerging Market Debt

Active emerging market debt strategies, backed by deep local insight and decades of experience

Why invest in emerging market debt

Inherited money

Attractive income opportunities

Emerging market debt may offer higher yields than many developed markets, across a wide universe of government and corporate issuers. While regional risks can vary – including regulatory, currency and political factors – emerging market debt may provide a useful additional source of income.

Diversification

Broad diversification

Emerging market debt provides access to a broad range of fixed income investments from some of the world’s fastest growing economies. Investors can gain exposure to investment grade, high yield and frontier markets in both hard and local currency, helping to diversify credit portfolios.

Money pathway

Long term growth potential

Emerging markets represent a growing share of global economic activity. Investing in bonds issued in these regions provides access to long-term structural trends, while maintaining a focus on income and total return opportunities.

Siddharth Dahiya

Global Head of Emerging Markets Debt, Aberdeen Investments

“Emerging market debt can deliver diversified income opportunities when supported by disciplined risk management and deep local research.”

Siddharth Dahiya

Global Head of Emerging Markets Debt, Aberdeen Investments

Why Aberdeen Investments for emerging market debt

Decades of emerging markets experience

We have over 30 years of on-the-ground experience investing in emerging markets. Our dedicated teams apply rigorous analysis across sovereign and corporate issuers, supporting consistent outcomes across emerging market debt portfolios. 

Integrated ESG and credit research

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analysis is embedded within our emerging market debt investment process. This helps identify long-term risks and opportunities, supporting more sustainable fixed income outcomes.

Disciplined portfolio construction

Our active approach to country allocation, duration and issuer selection is underpinned by a risk‑aware framework, designed to balance income, liquidity and capital preservation across emerging markets strategies.

FAQs

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.