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Notes from the Road: Emerging Markets1
One of the favourite things that GuardCap Emerging Markets team like to do as investors is embark on road trips, making onsite visits with investee companies and meeting with management teams to help them gain valuable insights and build a deeper understanding of a business; such interactions form a critical part of their analytical process.
The Team do not limit their engagement to existing portfolio holdings and potential investee companies but expand their reach to include as many of the competitors, suppliers, customers and distributors of actual and potential holdings as possible. They use these trips as an opportunity to build a fuller picture of a particular company and its industry. The following commentary features a recent research trip, which is being provided as an example to demonstrate their investment process in action.
1 Guardian Capital LP is providing, with permission, this market commentary, which was authored by GuardCap Asset Management Limited. GuardCap Asset Management Limited is a sub-advisor to, and an affiliate of, Guardian Capital LP. GuardCap specializes in managing concentrated, bottom-up, strategies constructed on an “index-agnostic” basis for global equity and emerging market equity strategies.
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