Emerging Markets Annual Letter 2024
2024 marks the eighth full calendar year for the UCITS version of our emerging markets equity strategy.
This is only the third review since Donald Trump ascended his golden throne, but it feels much longer than that. With the world’s indispensable economy an unwitting participant in a TV reality show, the task of trying to scribble anything sensible about what might happen has become an exercise in magical thinking.
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2024 marks the eighth full calendar year for the UCITS version of our emerging markets equity strategy.

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2023 marks the seventh full calendar year for the UCITS version of our emerging markets equity strategy.

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In his latest review, Michael Hughes discusses how cyclical influences may dampen economic growth next year. In contrast, when markets have factored in a slightly difficult outlook (as they did over Q3), the Fund’s stocks have tended to outperform, as changes in the economic outlook do not greatly influence these companies’ earnings. He wraps it up with a quick overview of a recent study that suggests that artificial intelligence could raise annual global GDP by around 7%.

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For this quarter’s review, Michael Hughes, Client Portfolio Manager for the GuardCap Global Equity Strategy, takes a look at the trend of AI ‘mania’ in the market. …

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We’re pleased to present the latest insights from Michael Hughes, Client Portfolio Manager for the GuardCap Global Equity Strategy. …

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2022 marks the sixth full calendar year for the UCITS version of our emerging markets equity strategy.

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While 2020 was a year of huge change, as the world embraced digital technologies to overcome the physical constraints of the pandemic.

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GuardCap Global Equity Fund (UCITS) raised from Silver to Gold…

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2020 has been such an unusual year that it is difficult to draw too many definitive conclusions at this stage.