Eric Sturdza launches Vietnam equity UCITS fund

Strategic Vietnam Prosperity fund

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Eric Sturdza Investments has launched the Strategic Vietnam Prosperity fund, which provides exposure to an Asian equity market that the firm said is “poised to record significant economic expansion”.

Shasha Li Mafli will be the manager of the new fund. She has over 20 years of experience managing Asian investment portfolios, including a record of "consistent" performance in Vietnamese equities, the firm said. The firm argued that the Vietnamese economy was "very attractive" to foreign direct investment due to trade agreements and a "solid" infrastructure. JP Morgan AM launches equity options-based ETF Vietnam's skilled workforce, "attractive wages", a "stable political environment" and positive economic policies were also noted as strengths that could lead to it being classifie...

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