William Blair Emerging Markets Leaders Concentrated Strategy
Opportunities for Active Investors
Inefficient emerging markets continue to evolve, providing opportunities to invest in future growth drivers.
High-conviction Ideas
High conviction emerging markets portfolio of 20-35 stocks. Leaders are companies that we believe demonstrate consistent value creation, competitive dominance, and sustainability of critical inputs.
Capturing Growth Opportunities
Investments geared toward structurally attractive consumer trends provide broad exposure across emerging market countries.
Disciplined Investment Approach
Combines deep fundamental research with systematic inputs to consistently identify alpha opportunities.
Consistent Philosophy, Process
William Blair has over 20 years of experience investing in emerging markets with the same philosophy and process.
Long Experience in China
We have been investing in China since 1996 and in China A-Shares since 2013.
Significant AUM
We manage $16.7 billion in emerging market securities across all strategies, $11.4 billion in dedicated emerging market strategies, and $7.7 billion in Chinese equities (including $1.9 billion in China A-Shares) across all strategies as of September 30, 2020.
Emerging markets make up a disproportionate percentage of our quality growth universe: 47%
As of September 30, 2020
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