MoneyAM Fund Centre

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Fund Objective

To achieve capital appreciation and income growth by mainly investing in an actively managed portfolio of dividend - paying emerging market securities.

Fund Managers

Edward Robertson

Edward Robertson - Lead Manager & Founder. Edward graduated in 1989 from the University of East Anglia. He worked in Hong Kong and London, before joining Lloyd George Management in 1999. Along with Jacob Rees-Mogg, Edward built the GEM product at Lloyd George Management. He also led the focus on the EMEA region and managed the top-performing Russian Fund - SIBINCO. Edward is lead manager for the EM large cap fund and co-manager of the EM Small Cap and Dividend Growth funds.

Kumar Pandit

Kumar Pandit is a partner at Somerset Capital and Co-Manager of the Somerset Emerging Markets Dividend Growth Fund. He joined Somerset Capital in January 2011 (our very first external hire for the investment team) and has expertise across global emerging markets with a particular emphasis on EMEA, Frontier Markets and Latin America. Kumar graduated from Kingston University where he read Computer Science and Business Studies and is a CFA Charterholder.

Mark Williams

Mark Williams is Co-Manager of the Somerset Emerging Markets Dividend Growth and Liontrust Asia Income Funds (sub-advised by Somerset Capital). He joined Somerset Capital in 2020 from Liontrust Investment Partners where he was Head of Asia Pacific Equities and Co-Manager of the Liontrust Asia Income Fund, which he launched with Carolyn Chan and Shashank Savla in 2012. Prior to Liontrust he specialised in Asian Equity mandates at Occam and F&C where he ran the flagship Asia Pacific Growth Funds. Mark has over 27 years’ portfolio management experience.