Uncovering Trusts – Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEMIT): A well-performing ‘one-stop-shop’ for investment in emerging markets

In this episode, our director of content, investment trusts Milosz Papst discusses Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust, which is by far the UK’s largest emerging markets investment trust. He starts by providing some background to the current emerging markets opportunity. He elaborates on the trust’s strong performance as well as measures announced by the board in June 2024 aimed at improving liquidity in the trust’s shares and increasing shareholders’ potential total returns. He highlights the trust’s recent announcement related to the use of derivatives. He delves deeper into the trust’s investment process and portfolio structure. He provides examples of the trust’s significant portfolio holdings, such as TSMC, ICICI Bank and Tencent, as well as recent additions including Nari Technology and Ather Energy. He concludes by commenting on the trust’s dividends, revenue and special distributable reserves, discount to NAV and gearing.

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