EM Fund Stock Picks & Country Commentaries (May 31, 2026)

I’ve updated the format of these posts and on web browsers, the following table of contents should appear when hovering over the left side of the screen (paid subscribers):

• 🌏 New Asia Fund Documents & Research

• 🌍 Middle East Research & Updates

• 🇿🇦🌍 New South Africa Fund Documents & Research

• 🌐 New Emerging Market Fund Documents & Research

  • 🌐 EM Bonds

  • 🌐 EM Equity

  • 🌐 Other

• 🌐 New Frontier Market Fund Documents & Research

• 🌐 Other International Focused Fund Documents & Research

• 🌐 Other Research Highlights

Our Frontier & Emerging Market Stock Index for all stocks covered and tagged has also been updated (2,200+ tagged stocks plus additional stocks not tagged for a total of 3,295+ stocks)…

As of the end of May, more April/Q1 fund updates (our continuously updated post containing all funds is here) are available along with new emerging market research starting with some interesting non-EM pieces:

• 🔬🌐 AI — Artificial Intoxication (Artisan Partners)

  • We’ve seen this dynamic before. In July 2007, then-Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince famously told the Financial Times that despite rising risk in the subprime mortgage market, his bank was continuing to lend, stating: “As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance.”

  • At some point, the AI-generated music stops. Rationality returns. The market sobers up.

• 🎙️🌐📝 Are Investors Quietly Quitting the U.S.? (Natixis IM) 9:34 Minutes – Lynda Schweitzer, CFA, Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of Loomis Sayles’ Global Fixed Income Team, believes that while investors may be underestimating the long-term implications of the Iran War it could also create regional differences that will offer investment opportunities. In this podcast Lynda talks to Louise Watson about:

  • Why investors are ‘quiet quitting’ the US

  • Where she is seeing opportunity right now

  • How her team finds mispriced bonds and where they see opportunity right now

  • Her outlook for the global economy, fixed income yields, and inflation

• 🔬🇸🇪 A stronger economy, better opportunities: why Sweden is back on the radar (Janus Henderson Investors) – Julia Scheufler and Ollie Beckett, deputy fund manager and fund manager of The European Smaller Companies Trust, highlight why Sweden has recently become an increasingly attractive hunting ground – and what this could mean for investors.

  • 🇸🇪 Boozt

  • 🇸🇪 XVIVO Perfusion

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📈 Contributors; 📉 Detractors; 🏧 Transactions; 🚩Discusses/mentions stocks by name.

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• 🗄️🌍 abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund, Inc. (NYSEAMERICAN: FAX)’s quarterly commentary (market review and outlook) is dated from the Quarter ended April 30, 2026. It gives or covers an economic & market overview, Asian bonds, Asian currencies, Asian credit, EM debt & currencies and an outlook.

• 🔬🌍 APAC real estate market outlook Q2 2026 (Aberdeen Investments) – Key Highlights

  • Asia-Pacific (APAC) growth profiles remain divergent, with external price shocks amplifying existing domestic trends rather than creating a uniform regional shock

  • Inflation risks remain asymmetric, with upside risks concentrated in energy importing economies like Japan

  • Fundamentals are in good shape in most sectors, with low construction activity a key reason for resilience in the region

• 🔬🌍 APAC Investing: A pan-regional approach (Franklin Templeton) – Templeton Global Investments makes the case for APAC investing, with a pan-regional approach that encapsulates the entire spectrum of dynamic sectors and structural themes.

• 🔬🌍 APAC Financial Markets Spotlight – May 2026 (FTSE Russell) – Key highlights:

  • Macro and policy backdrop – Australia and the Philippines the first to react

  • APAC equities – renewed focus on AI and fundamentals sustained APAC lead

  • Energy shocks and equity reactions – APAC equities more resilient versus Europe

  • APAC bond and FX returns – APGBI modestly outperformed WGBI YTD

  • APAC yields, curves, and spreads – APAC spreads versus the US showed resilience

  This report, published quarterly, delves into the major macroeconomic, fixed income, equity and FX market events shaping the APAC financial markets, leveraging our exclusive databases and platforms such as FTSE Russell indices across asset classes, LSEG Workspace, Lipper fund flows and many more.

• 🗄️🌍 Henderson Far East Income Limited (LON: HFEL)’s April monthly factsheet (detailed economic and portfolio – in the top corner + under documents) discussed or mentioned:

  • 📉[ordinary shares] 🇰🇷🅿️ Samsung Electronics (KRX: 005930 / 005935 / LON: BC94 / FRA: SSUN / OTCMKTS: SSNLF) 🇼 🏷️

  • 📈[preference shares] 🇰🇷🅿️ Samsung Electronics (KRX: 005930 / 005935 / LON: BC94 / FRA: SSUN / OTCMKTS: SSNLF) 🇼 🏷️

  • 📉🇰🇷 SK Hynix (KRX: 000660) – Manufactures, distributes & sells semiconductor products in Korea, China, Asia, USA & Europe. DRAM, NAND storage products, SSD, MCP & CMOS image sensors for server, networking, mobile, PC, consumer & auto applications. 🇼 🏷️

  • 📉🇹🇼 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) (NYSE: TSM) 🇼 🏷️

  • 📈🇹🇼 MediaTek (TPE: 2454 / OTCMKTS: MDTTF) – Fabless semiconductor company. Systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile device, home entertainment, connectivity & IoT products. 🇼 🏷️

  • 📈🇹🇼 United Microelectronics Corp (TPE: 2303 / NYSE: UMC) – Global semiconductor foundry. 🇼 🏷️

  • 🏧🇮🇩🏛️ Bank Negara Indonesia (IDX: BBNI / FRA: BKE1 / OTCMKTS: PBNNF / PTBRY) – Originally established as Indonesia’s central Bank. 🇼 🏷️

  • 🏧🇨🇳 FinVolution (NYSE: FINV) – Fintech (online consumer finance).