Research and Markets: GEM Equity Managers Report.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c21540) has announced the addition of GEM Equity Managers Report to their offering.

This 70-page report isolates which investment managers with GEM equity fund products are doing the best job of managing these funds, providing insight into their competitive advantages.

The first step in this project was to isolate a list of 25 of the top investment managers with GEM equity products tracked by EPFR. These investment managers were selected based on their management of GEM equity funds that were both top performers and attracted the most investor inflows over the past one-year period.

Based on internal sources of data and fund intelligence, and gathering of additional information externally, this report provides practical insight into the following factors:

--Specific index that the firm's GEM equity product is benchmarked to.

--Company type of the various investment managers: i.e. whether they are a small boutique, are organized on a regional basis (with PMs, analysts, marketing personnel being centralized in New York, London, etc. or have some other regional bias), or whether they are truly global in their reach with managers, analysts, marketers spread widely around the world.

--GEM/Total assets under management (AUM): what is the proportion of GEM assets under management versus total AUM. This shows whether firms that are more dedicated to GEMs tend to be more successful at generating sales and performance. In addition, the report provides insight into the breakdown of institutional versus retail money where available.

--Sales: What are total net inflows into the firm's GEM equity funds over the past 12 months? What are their primary distribution channels for generating these sales, such as via aggregators, banks, advisors, etc. What other marketing and sales strategies are evident that appear to have worked? Are these firms experiencing success in particular regions or with particular emerging market regional or country focused products. The report identifies, where possible, firms that are launching new products. The report also lists emerging market fund sub-groups (Greater China, India, Russia, Latin America) if a firms manages funds in those dynamic categories.

--GEM equity team sizes and their location.

--Investment Style: The investment style employed by firms with their GEM equity fund product(s). Does the firm take a top-down or bottom-up approach? What is its emphasis on macro, sector, or individual stocks in its asset allocation model? How does the firm arrive at its stock picking decisions? With its GEM products, does the firm have a bias towards growth, value or a blend? The report cuts through some of the jargon in the firm's investment profile and objective descriptions to help categorize the firm's style.

--Investment Process: What is the firm's asset allocation process and their methodology for implementing their investment style? Do they use preferred company lists or company universe from which stock selection is made?

--Relationship between GEM and other equity funds: Is GEM separate from global or international developed market equity products or integrated in some way into these broader products? Any evidence of shared ideas with other products or asset classes?

--Does the firm manage an EM debt product? Is there evidence that the EM debt and GEM equity products are integrated, separate but equal, separate but unequal?

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