The team use their detailed local knowledge and expertise to uncover emerging market investment opportunities from around the world, including small and medium sized companies that other investors may miss.
This detailed analysis and mantra of not blindly following the index is particularly important to help manage risk as emerging market countries and companies do not always have strong operational and regulatory frameworks.
Access to the dynamic growth potential of companies from some of the world’s fastest advancing economies such as China, Mexico, Taiwan and India.
An established, active investment approach that seeks to reduce risk and increase the value of an investment over time.
Management by one of the largest and most experienced, dedicated emerging markets teams.
From the 1st to the largest — TEMIT now manages £2bn+ in total net assets for investors. Built on experience ‘TEMIT in numbers’ highlights how scale and local country knowledge could benefit your portfolio. (Source: Franklin Templeton, 31 August 2025)
ARE YOU TAPPING INTO THIS GROWTH POTENTIAL
Emerging markets are on the rise, with all 24 projected to grow in 2025 according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Unparalleled Emerging Markets Experience
Chetan Sehgal is the lead portfolio manager of Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEMIT). He has been a portfolio manager and senior research analyst for TEMIT since 2015. He is also a senior managing director and the director of portfolio management for Franklin Templeton’s Emerging Markets Equity Team.
Chetan was joined by portfolio manager Andrew Ness on 17 September 2018. Andrew is a seasoned investor with over two decades of experience as an emerging markets equity portfolio manager, and a strong alignment with the investment approach and philosophy utilised in the management of TEMIT’s portfolio.
Lead Portfolio Manager,
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEMIT)
Edinburgh (Portfolio Manager)
The TEMIT portfolio management team are supported by an experienced team of over 70 dedicated emerging markets investment professionals located across 20 offices around the world.
Shares in TEMIT qualify as an investment which can be held through an ISA. TEMIT is available through a stocks and shares ISA from a number of different companies. Your financial adviser will be able to give you full details of the options available to you.
The Case for Active Management
The Templeton Emerging Markets Group believe that being present in these local markets and building relationships with local business leaders provides them with an edge, helping them to differentiate the winners from the losers and specifically to be able to assess risks better through the kind of local perspective which gives us a very good understanding of where both the upsides and the risks lie within those business models.
We actively control our weightings to any one country, sector or market to avoid the concentration risks inherent in a market weighted index. For example, the top three countries in MSCI Emerging Markets Index account for more than half of the Index performance.
A Word about Risk
TEMIT is exposed to a number of risks, including but not limited to:
Investment and Market Risks, Currency Risks, Political Risks, Counterparty (Credit) Risks, Regulatory Risks.
In emerging markets, the risks can be greater than in developed markets. Emerging Markets can sometimes experience periods of political, economic and currency instability, as well as changing investor sentiment that cause investments to fall in value, sometimes sharply.
Past performance is not a guide to future performance. The value of shares in the Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust, and any income from them can go down as well as up and your clients may not get back the amount you invested.
For full details of all of the risks involved in investing in the Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust please read the Annual Report (click here).
