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Masters in Business

Christine Phillpotts on Investing in Emerging Markets

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Investing

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Barry speaks with Christine Phillpotts, Portfolio Manager for Ariel Investment’s emerging markets value strategies. She is also Senior Research Analyst for Consumer and Real Estate across Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Eastern Europe. She also covers all sectors in Africa. She spent 10 years at AllianceBernstein as Portfolio Manager and Senior Research analyst in emerging markets. Christine also helped launched the ‘Next 50 Emerging Markets Fund’, AllianceBertstein’s Frontier fund. She also worked as JPMorgan Asset Management equity research associate for US Tech. On this episode, Barry and Christine discuss her path through finance, the structural differences in emerging markets, and the latest market trends.

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This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio.

0:46.1

This week on the podcast, I have another extra special guest.

0:50.1

Christine Philpott's of Aerial Investments has specialized in emerging markets and frontier markets for most of her career.

0:59.0

She has been around the world.

1:01.1

And if you name a hotspot investing place, she's been there.

1:05.2

South America, Asia, Africa, sub-Saharan, Africa and Middle East, as well as Southeast Asia and Asia.

1:13.2

She's a boots on the ground type of investor who focuses and specializes in emerging market value.

1:20.8

What makes that style of investing so interesting and different is simply market inefficiencies.

1:28.3

You know, the U.S. markets are so efficient, large-cap tech stocks, it's really hard to have an edge in that space.

1:36.3

But when you look at emerging markets and when you look at value, the opportunity for alpha is much, much greater than it is in traditional large-cap growth stocks in the U.S.

1:49.1

And a lot of managers in that space actually beat their benchmark.

1:53.4

You can't say the same for U.S. large-cap stocks.

1:57.0

I thought this conversation was really informative and fascinating.

2:00.5

And I think you will also,

2:02.8

with no further ado, aerial investments, Christine Philpott's.

2:07.3

Thank you for having me.

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