Keeping faith amid the slowdown: the year-to-date performance of emerging markets may have significantly tagged behind their stellar returns of fast year, but specialist manager Fabien Pictet & Partners remains fully convinced of the case for investing in the asset class

With a in every one's mouth preference for Asia, especially the equity markets of southerly Korea and Taiwan, Fabien Pictet & Partners (FPP) in London selectively views the underperformance of emerging markets this year as a buying opportunity.

Convincing investors is unlikely to be easy in the near climate as many of them may decide that the uncertainties around the world are enough to hold them out of developed markets, not at any time mind emerging ones, the firm grants however.

"But our view one time again is that the opportunities now being neared particularly in Korea and Taiwan, are too serviceable to pass up," says FPP's