Webinar Replay | Unlocking Growth: Opportunities & Trends in Emerging Markets
In this webinar, portfolio managers Damian Bird, CFA and Kumar Pandit, CFA discuss why they believe now is a unique opportunity to allocate to some of the most exceptional global businesses. For the past decade, emerging markets (EM) investors have suffered against strong U.S. equity performance, driving EM allocations to an all-time low. However, the Polen team believes now is a key inflection point for EM investing with a weakening dollar and a more supportive macro environment driving outsized growth at discounted valuations.
- [00:00] Introduction and Polen Capital Overview
- [03:45] EM Update and Economic Context
- [10:08] Polen's Investment Philosophy
- [16:32] Key Holdings: Recent Updates
- [18:50] Tariffs and Their Potential Market Impacts
- [20:16] Rise of Intra-EM Trade and the "Global South"
- [22:35] Structural Shift vs. Political Risk
- [26:57] India: Valuations and Portfolio Approach
- [32:00] China's Property Market
- [36:00] Structural Rebalancing & Misallocation Lessons
- [41:00] Supply Chains and Trade Realignment
- [46:00] Webinar Wrap-Up
The more people start to question this idea of American exceptionalism, and the more they look at the growth in emerging markets, the more it becomes self-fulfilling.
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