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Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan since 2000, PGIM SITE is committed to offering institutional and individual investors comprehensive, customized investment solutions to meet their needs, while building long-term client relationship and trust. As one of the top equity and discretionary investment managers in Taiwan, PGIM SITE offers locally focused and international funds across equity, fixed income, and multi-asset leveraging global capabilities of PGIM. With dedicated and experienced investment teams on the ground, we understand the local nuances in the Asian markets.

PGIM India, a wholly owned business of PGIM, is a full-service asset manager offering differentiated investment products and solutions across equity and fixed income since 2010. With large presence in 27 cities throughout India, we strive to serve institutional and retail clients and intermediary partners with superior customer service and customized solutions. In addition to domestically managed equity, fixed income, and balanced funds by our seasoned investment teams, we offer global equity, emerging market, and global real estate funds combining the global capabilities of PGIM with local expertise to help Indian investors diversify their portfolios. 

We believe PGIM Fixed Income offers the following competitive advantages in the management of emerging markets debt strategies:

1. Our team is well-resourced, stable, and offers a suite of EMD strategies. The team is comprised of 30+ portfolio managers, economists, and corporate analysts, many of whom are exclusively dedicated to emerging markets. Our stable team manages EM Hard Currency, Local Currency, EM Corporate, Total Return, and Blended strategies, providing options for our clients.
2. A state-of-the-art sovereign analysis framework has been developed by our in-house economics team. Rather than using Moody’s or S&P ratings, PGIM Fixed Income’s economists produce their own proprietary credit rating for each country using 21 independent quantitative factors supplemented by our factor qualitative assessment. These ratings tend to lead the rating agencies, providing a critical edge.
3. ESG is embedded in the investment process. ESG factors are integrated into our credit rating and relative value process for sovereigns and corporates.
4. Our proprietary risk framework is fully integrated between the portfolio management and risk management groups and is completely independent. This can ensure portfolios are managed within predetermined risk thresholds.
5. Significant market presence: PGIM Fixed Income manages more than $40 billion across dedicated emerging market bond strategies. We believe the resulting scale and our strong relationships with brokers / dealers enable us to take advantage of market opportunities.

PGIM Real Estate’s global platform, combining a global perspective with local expertise, uniquely positions us to deliver innovative solutions to our clients in both developed and emerging economies. Our history of operating in emerging markets around the world – from pioneering the logistics space in Mexico to establishing an on-the-ground presence in Singapore more than 20 years ago – is backed by longstanding relationships with local partners, consultants, banks and brokers.  

This deep local knowledge, rooted in research and backed by decades of investing and financing experience, enables us to capitalize on short- and long-term opportunities across both real estate equity and debt in the emerging markets and sectors in which we have the highest conviction.

At PGIM Quantitative Solutions, we’ve carefully designed a framework that allows us to capture alpha opportunities in Emerging Markets (EM) across securities, industries and countries, while balancing against adverse risk outcomes.

Adapting to company fundamentals

• The starting point for PGIM Quantitative Solutions' framework is to recognize that fundamentals matter. As markets move, different fundamentals become more significant measures for different types of companies. Consequently, different types of signals will be more effective at detecting investment opporutnities/mispricings. 
• In determining which fundamentals are the most important for which types of companies, we turn to valuation theory to guide us. We find that valuation-oriented signals are more effective at evaluating the future performance prospects of slower-growth companies, while growth signals are more effective at evaluating the future performance prospects of fast-growth companies.
• PGIM Quantitative Solutions' research and investment experience has shown that an adaptive bottom-up stock selection framework is essential to capturing inefficiencies within equities, and to driving consistent performance over the long term.

Blended approach of top-down dynamics and bottom-up selection

Within EM, a top-down investment approach can complement bottom-up stock selection as the return opportunities that arise between countries and industries can be significant. We combine a top-down element to our investing framework and believe this combination positions our EM strategies to better navigate even more varied market conditions.

Within our overall investment approach, we believe that bottom-up stock selection is of primary importance in exploiting inefficiencies within EM equities and in driving consistent performance over the long term. Therefore, we maintain a dominant weight towards bottom-up insights.

Diversified, style-pure portfolio with risk controls

At PGIM Quantitative Solutions we recognize that implementation is key to success and we believe the most consistent way to deliver alpha in EM is within a well-diversified, style-pure portfolio with risk controls. Our portfolios maintain strict limits on security active exposures, and controls on industry and country exposures. These controls are calibrated to balance alpha opportunities with protection against adverse security, industry and country outcomes. Our final portfolios have a high level of diversification.