Seven magnificent ways to invest in global emerging markets

Take a look at the world of Investment Trusts too!

Black Rock Latin America & TEMIT should be topping your list but they don't even get a mention.

Cheat to buy, lower annual fees.

BR LA up over 500% in 5 years! TEMIT steaming along too.

But just maybe an article like this is a sell signal....

Woops.

'...cheap to buy...'

Citywire seems to have forgotten those of us who like to buy shares direct

John, what is TEMIT pls.

Templeton Emerging Markets Inv Trust (TEM)

John Kenny's right, you know. Both are good long-term fund.

I hope this does not signal a sell for these funds, I was pleased to see that my wife and I have four of the seven mentioned. Well, I don't know if I should be pleased or not, I wonder who actually did the research for this article and whether it's influenced by the advertisments on Cirywire? Will this comment be deleted by the moderator?

When I was working for the print industry, many moons ago, the publishers of certain magazines would garuantee a good editorial piece if we placed an advert. in their mag.

Colin, tempted as I am to remove your comment I will let it stand! I can assure you that Citywire strives for the highest editorial standards and that the practices you refer to have nothing to do with us.

Obviously, commercially we rely heavily on advertising and it is true that many of our advertisers are fund management groups. However, our editorial team operates entirely independently and writes without fear or favour.

The funds highlighted in the article were chosen by our research team for Citywire Selection based entirely on our analyis of their performance and investment philosophy.

Hope that helps clarify the situation!

By the way John, we aim to do a big report on investment trusts soon so keep watching this space.

As a small investor who likes to be responsible for his own successes and failures I haven't made an investment in any other arena for some years.

Any product that has been sold to me rather than chosen by me has always benefitted the seller and not necessarily benefitted me.

Am pretty confident that ITs are the cheapest way to get absolutely top notch managers and once you know where to look there is first class analysis available at no or minimal cost.

Look forward to your report - any timescale available?

The return comment from CityWire has to be believed - or we wouldn't be reading this BUT ...No case has been made for separating Funds from Trusts in the first place.

Trusts are outstanding but discoiunts must be watched. They can boost performance or frustrate an otherwise excellent NAV improvement. Take Aberdeen New Thai Trust as an example. Good investment record but discount seems to get larger & larger and none of the Managers of Trusts seem to have an effective answer, although I shall watch Eastern European Trust's efforts with interest.

a great load of nothing

Come on now.W e all need to make a living.

Allianz BRIC Stars - what a DOG. Doesn't even match the benchmark. My £7K holding in 2007 is now only £6422. They must be playing with the graph?

Investments can go up or down.And down is the way at the moment.

If that is John Kenny from West Malling - please contact axel49@btinternet.com