GQG Partners, one of the world's leading global equity boutique investment management firms, has been awarded the International Equities – Emerging Markets and Regional accolade for its GQG Partners Emerging Markets Equity Fund at the 2023 Zenith Fund Awards, held in Sydney on Friday, 13 October.
This marks the second consecutive year that a GQG Partners fund has been acknowledged, with the GQG Partners Global Equity Fund taking out the International Equities – Global category in 2022.
The Zenith Fund Awards acknowledge and encourage excellence in funds management across all asset classes and disciplines and aim to raise the standard of funds management in the industry for the ultimate benefit of investors. Each award is based on long-term factors derived from Zenith’s extensive research and due diligence of fund managers.
The GQG Partners Emerging Markets Equity Fund seeks to invest in quality companies with attractively priced future growth prospects in emerging markets. The fundamental investment process evaluates each business based on financial strength, sustainability of earnings growth, and quality of management. It aims to limit downside risk while providing attractive returns to long-term investors over a full market cycle.
Laird Abernethy, managing director, Australia, and New Zealand, GQG Partners, said that winning the International Equities – Emerging Markets and Regional award is an outstanding accolade for the business and is testament to the adaptability, durability, and strength of GQG’s investment team and process.
“Our investment process at GQG is centred around identifying those companies that exhibit strong ‘forward looking’ quality attributes. We believe that focussing on the future quality of a company, as opposed to its current or historic quality, enables the team to think outside the traditional prism of value and growth investing and instead focus on identifying those future quality compounders, regardless of which sector they may reside.
“We believe this forward-looking approach provides our portfolio managers a higher degree of adaptability, particularly as market regimes shift.”
Whilst headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, GQG Partners has a strong affinity with Australia, opening its first registered office outside of the USA in Sydney 2019. Additionally, GQG Partners’ parent company, GQG Inc., was listed on the ASX in October 2021.
The GQG Partners Emerging Markets Equity Fund holds a ‘Highly Recommended’ rating from both Zenith and Lonsec as well as a Morningstar Medalist RatingTM of ‘Gold’ (assigned 04/05/23).
As at 30 September 2023, the GQG Partners Emerging Markets Equity Fund is the sole emerging markets fund in Australia to receive the highest rating from all three of the country's prominent investment research and portfolio construction institutions.
