Overview
BlackRock Frontiers tries to achieve long term capital growth from investment in companies operating in Frontier Markets or whose stocks are listed on the stock markets of such countries.
The fund manager’s website can be reached here.
Fundamentals
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Research History
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08 Jun 2020 11 min read
QuotedData’s Economic Roundup – June 2020
Economic & Political Roundup Kindly sponsored by Allianz A collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell […]
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07 Feb 2020 9 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – February 2020
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford Table of contents New research In this issue Performance data Discounts and premiums Money in and out Major news stories Income Events Guide New research Here is a list of research we published over January: An annual overview note on Shires Income (SHRS) “Shires Income (SHRS) will […]
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11 Sep 2019 4 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – September 2019
Investment Companies Roundup Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford New research Over August, we published notes on Aberdeen Emerging Markets and JLEN Environmental Assets . You can read all these notes by clicking on the links above or by visiting www.quoteddata.com. In this issue Performance data – appetite for risk was generally down in August, as […]
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18 Jan 2019 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic roundup – January 2019
QuotedData’s economic roundup – January 2019 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell any of […]
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14 Sep 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – September 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – September 2018 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of August 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. Money raised and returned in August GRIT Real Estate Income floated on the UK Stock Exchange in […]
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18 Jul 2018 2 min read
Quarterly Investment Companies Roundup – Second Quarter 2018
QUARTERLY INVESTMENT COMPANIES ROUNDUP – SECOND QUARTER 2018 Global equities markets rose in the second quarter of 2018, Markets were volatile, as positive economic data and encouraging company performances played off against geopolitical concerns. Yields from bond markets rose early in the quarter but fell back as investors turned to ‘safer’ investments. The threat of […]
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11 Jul 2018 1 min read
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 2018
QuotedData’s investment companies roundup – July 2018 is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of June 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. July Investment Companies Roundup Money raised and returned in June Newcomer to the market, Yew Grove […]
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25 Apr 2018 2 min read
Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018
Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018 Quarterly investment companies roundup – First quarter 2018 – Global equity markets declined in the first quarter of 2018. Concerns about US interest rate rises were the feature of the first half of the quarter. However, worries about global trade took over in the second part, particularly […]
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07 Feb 2018 2 min read
QuotedData investment companies roundup – February 2018
QuotedData investment companies roundup – February 2018 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of January 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. The oil price was up again over the month and this helped propel […]
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28 Nov 2017 1 min read
Jupiter Emerging & Frontier Income – A very successful fundraise
Jupiter Emerging & Frontier Income – A very successful fundraise Jupiter Emerging & Frontier Income (JEFI) offers investors access to the potentially exciting long-term growth prospects of emerging and frontier markets (see page 3) and one of the highest dividend yields in its peer group. Its portfolio is relatively focused, with just 44 holdings, yet […]
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14 Jun 2017 2 min read
QuotedData’s economic round up – June 2017
QuotedData’s economic round up – June 2017 – is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or […]
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07 Dec 2016 1 min read
QuotedData’s round up of views on the global economy – December 2016
QuotedData’s collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from comments made by chairman and managers of investment companies. december-economic-and-political-roundup
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10 Nov 2016 1 min read
Aberdeen Frontier Markets – Long term growth opportunity?
Aberdeen Frontier Markets – Long term growth opportunity? – Marten & Co published the initiation of research note on Aberdeen Frontier Markets Investment Company (AFMC) AFMC offers investors a diversified exposure to the superior growth prospects offered by frontier markets (stock markets that aren’t classified as developed or emerging). Its managers believe that weak commodity and energy […]
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1 min read
Aberdeen Frontier Markets – Long term growth opportunity?
QuotedData has published a new note on a company in the global emerging markets sector. Aberdeen Frontier Markets Investment Company (AFMC) offers investors a diversified exposure to the superior growth prospects offered by frontier markets (stock markets that aren’t classified as developed or emerging). Its managers believe that weak commodity and energy prices, as well […]
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26 Feb 2021 2 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 26 February 2021
QuotedData’s weekly news show 19 February 2021 Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on Youtube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: Law Debenture’s results Troy Income & Growth change of manager BlackRock Frontier Markets shrinking Richard Williams also covered: […]
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23 Feb 2021 1 min read
Blackrock Frontiers set to shrink
Blackrock Frontiers set to shrink – BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust has announced the result of its tender offer. The tender closed at 1.00 p.m. on 19 February 2021 and was approved by shareholders today. 51,884,770 ordinary shares, representing 21.51% of the shares in issue as at 19 February 2021 were validly tendered. Now, the company’s assets […]
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19 Feb 2021 4 min read
QD view – Resurgent emergence
QD view – Resurgent emergence: What are the prospects for emerging markets funds as the global economy recovers from COVID-19? The place to be Quite a few commentators have been picking emerging markets as the place to be in 2021. Part of the argument is that many of them (particularly in parts of Asia) coped […]
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11 Dec 2020 5 min read
BlackRock Frontiers sees discounts in key markets as not reflective of economic reality
Over BlackRock Frontiers’s (BRFI’s) year to 30 September 2020, its NAV returned -20.0% while the benchmark delivered -15.6%. Performance has been much better over the post reporting period, with the NAV up 27.9% from 30 September to 8 December, compared to the benchmark’s 15.5% return. BRFI’s managers, Sam Vecht and Emily Fletcher, believe that the value […]
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22 Apr 2020 3 min read
BlackRock Frontiers reflects on March performance with Indonesia, Egypt and Vietnam hit particularly hard
BlackRock Frontiers (BRFI) In their capacity representing BRFI’s manager, Sam Vecht and Emily Fletcher, said: “The company’s NAV returned -25.6% (as at 31 March 2020) versus its benchmark the MSCI emerging ex selected countries + frontier markets + Saudi Arabia benchmark index which returned -19.4% in March. For reference, the MSCI emerging markets index ended the […]
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11 Dec 2018 8 min read
BlackRock Frontiers completes a transition year
BlackRock Frontiers (BRFI) has announced its final results for the year ended 30 September 2018. During the year, which the trust’s chairman describes as being a transition year, BRFI provided an NAV total return of -6.6% (in US dollar terms) thereby underperforming its reference index, which rose by 2.3%. (With effect from 1 April 2018, […]
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27 Nov 2018 1 min read
BlackRock Frontier announces result of rollover
BlackRock Frontier announces result of rollover- BlackRock Frontier Markets (BRFI) has announced today the results of the C share issue from BlackRock Emerging Europe plc (BEEP) windup (read more here). BlackRock Frontier will be issuing C shares for 100 pence per C share in exchange for the transfer to it of cash, cash equivalent and […]
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17 Aug 2018 3 min read
BlackRock Emerging Europe’s liquidation plans announced
BlackRock Emerging Europe’s liquidation plans announced – on 14th June, the Board of BlackRock Emerging Europe (BEEP) announced that its tender offer had not secured enough money to make continuing running the company viable. Click here to read more on our coverage of that decision. The Board of BEEP have looked at the options and have come up with […]
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04 Dec 2017 2 min read
BlackRock Frontiers premium persists despite share issues
BlackRock Frontiers premium persists despite share issues – BlackRock Frontiers Income reports that, during the year to 30 September 2017, the NAV increased by 21.5%, compared with the benchmark, the MSCI Frontier Markets Index, which rose by 25.5%. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index rose by 22.5% over the same period. (All performance figures are in US […]
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23 Nov 2016 3 min read
BlackRock Frontiers’ Argentinian exposure does well
BlackRock Frontier Markets reports that, during the year to 30 September 2016, its NAV increased by 9.3%, significantly outperforming the benchmark, the MSCI Frontier Markets Index, which rose by 0.9%. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index rose by 16.8% over the same period. The Directors are recommending the payment of a final dividend of 4.00 cents […]
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10 Oct 2016 1 min read
‘When people were worried about Pakistan and Argentina, we were buying’
In some ways, frontier markets are the start-ups of the investment world. They have huge untapped growth potential but are precarious propositions with no guarantee of success and are difficult for investors to access. On its own, each individual market is incredibly risky. Bundled together in indices and funds, they offer a potentially compelling investment […]
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17 May 2016 6 min read
BlackRock Frontiers benefits from sterling weakness
BlackRock Frontiers, managed by Sam Vecht (pictured) and Emily Fletcher, has announced its interim report for the six months ended 31 March 2016. During the period, the trust provided an NAV total return of -0.1% and share price total return of 0.1%, thereby outperforming the MSCI Frontier markets index which returned -2.2% but underperforming the MSCI […]
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28 Jan 2016 2 min read
F&C Managed Portfolio beats UK market
F&C Managed Portfolio Trust has published interim results for the six months ended 30 November 2015, announcing a net asset value total return of -5.1% for the Income shares and -2.4% for the Growth shares compared to the FTSE All-Share Index return of -6.4%. The key drivers of the performance of the Growth Portfolio were […]
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18 Dec 2015 3 min read
BlackRock Frontiers will hold tender but aims to expand overall
BlackRock Frontier Markets managed to outperform its benchmark over the year to the end of September 2015, returning -12.2% on net assets against a -18.9% return on the MSCI Frontier Markets Index. Frontier Markets underperformed wider emerging markets as evidenced by a -13.6% return on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The return to shareholders was […]
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18 May 2015 1 min read
BlackRock Frontier outperforms in difficult market
The six months to the end of March 2015 have been a difficult time for BlackRock Frontier Markets. the MSCI Frontier Markets Index has returned -7.4% over this time – well behind the 6.6% return generated by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The fund’s asset value outperformed its benchmark, returning -4.2% but the shares moved […]
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02 Dec 2014 1 min read
Relatively poor year for BlackRock Frontiers
BRFI : Relatively poor year for BlackRock Frontiers BlackRock Frontier Markets generated a total return on net assets of 21.1% over the year to the end of September 2014 which is good in absolute terms, a lot better than the MSCI Emerging markets Index which returned 4.2% but well behind its benchmark, the MSCI Frontier […]
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21 May 2014 1 min read
BlackRock Frontiers : BRFI – interims
BlackRock Frontiers, managed by Sam Vecht (pictured), says that over the six months ended 31 March 2014 the total return on its net asset value was 7.8% in Sterling (11.0% in US dollars). The return lagged that of the MSCI Frontiers Index which returned 11.2% in Sterling and 14.4% in US dollars. The report attributes the […]
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03 Dec 2020 2 min read
Investment trust insider on emerging markets
Investment trust insider on emerging markets – James Carthew: Who to back in the emerging markets rally? The good news that we have had over the past few weeks on the US election and vaccines to tackle Covid-19 have helped drive a recovery in emerging markets investment trusts. Shares in JPMorgan Emerging Markets (JMG), Mobius (MMIT) […]
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02 Jun 2020 2 min read
Investment trust insider on emerging markets
Investment trust insider on emerging markets – James Carthew: there’s value in emerging markets as investors rush to take cover In uncertain times, it makes sense that investors turn to sectors with defensive earnings, such as utilities and infrastructure. Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure (EGL), which I hold, is trading at asset value and issuing shares. […]
