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Carmignac P. EM Debt: Letter from the Fund Manager

  • Author(s)
    Joseph Mouawad
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  • +9.08%
    Carmignac P. EM Debt’s performance

    in the 4th quarter of 2022 for the FW EUR Share class

  • +0.45%
    Reference indicator’s performance

    in the 4th quarter of 2022 for JP Morgan GBI – Emerging Markets Global Diversified Composite Unhedged EUR Index

  • +8.63%
    Of outperformance

    versus the reference indicator over the period

Carmignac P. EM Debt gained +9.08% in the fourth quarter of 2022, while its reference indicator¹ was up +0.45%.

Quarterly Performance Review

The last quarter of 2022 was driven by a recovered confidence in risk following a stabilization of the rates markets. This was driven partly by falling inflation and partly by expectations of an upcoming recession. The US Dollar consequently started to give back its stellar performance of the year.

Other headwinds to EM assets and risk in general have also started to turn. First the Federal reserve started signaling a shift in the speed of tightening given the inflation and growth prospect. China which had stuck to a strict zero covid policy is rushing to abandon that policy and pushing through a stimulus in its property sector. And finally, the war in Ukraine which had created a big shock in food and energy prices has started becoming more localized in eastern Ukraine and the world has adapted to the new reality in terms of commodities supply.

Market wise External debt rallied over 100bps and local debt yields rallied around 50bps while FX was more mixed, certainly rallying vs. USD but not necessarily vs. EUR which was one of the strong currencies in Q4.

In the year we have seen exceptionally negative returns in the EM universe with the EMBIGD benchmark returning -17.8% over 2022 exceeding the previous annual low of 2008 at -12.0%.

EMBIG Index (sovereign external debt index)

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Source: Carmignac, Bloomberg, 30/12/2022


While the GBI-EM (Local Rates) returned the second worse year since the existence of the index at -11.5% vs -14.9% in 2015.

GBI EM EUR Index (sovereign local debt index) - Annual Returns

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Source: Carmignac, Bloomberg, 30/12/2022

What have we done in this context

Following the rally in the credit bonds we have reduced the fund’s exposure to high beta names selling for instance: Angola, Tunisia, Egypt and the Dominican Republic. Meanwhile we increased our allocation of front-end IG credits such as Romania, or Poland Quasi-Sovereigns. We continued to actively manage the overall credit risk via CDS.

In local rates we have reinforced very significantly our long exposure to Brazilian rates following the sell-off in mid-November. We have also continued to be long Hungarian rates which saw a rally following the resolution on the EU funds. More broadly as the global rates environment relaxed from mid-November we added some long rates in Mexico, and Korea while we reduced outperformers such as the Czech and Chilean Rates.

In FX the environment was not as conductive for EM to perform, over the month we retained a large exposure to the CZK thanks to its high carry as well as the credible anchoring of the currency by the central bank, while being highly correlated to EUR.

Outlook for the next months

Looking ahead we expect the main headwinds for EM fixed income to start slowly fading away. First, inflation is expected to keep edging down pushing eventually in Q1 the Federal reserve to pause its rate hiking cycle. China has clearly moved away from zero covid policy and has been injecting stimulus in its property sector which tends to be a key sector for EM globally. And finally, the world is adjusting to the energy and food chock which resulted from the war in Ukraine and will keep adjusting further as we’re seeing all across Europe with the LNG terminals and the renewable push.

In that context we will be favouring duration again, mainly in local currency as well as credit in laggards such as central European names. We think that the early hikers remain interesting and in particular Brazil, however some late comers to the hiking cycle are also interesting such as Mexico.

FX is where we see the least upside against the EUR, but we expect the dollar to stay on a downward trend from here.

Sources: Carmignac, Bloomberg, 30/12/2022

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EMERGING MARKETS: Operating conditions and supervision in "emerging" markets may deviate from the standards prevailing on the large international exchanges and have an impact on prices of listed instruments in which the Fund may invest.

INTEREST RATE: Interest rate risk results in a decline in the net asset value in the event of changes in interest rates.

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Carmignac Portfolio EM Debt FW EUR Acc

ISIN: LU1623763734
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 (YTD)
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Year to date
Carmignac Portfolio EM Debt FW EUR Acc - - - +1.10 % -9.97 % +28.88 % +10.54 % +3.93 % -9.05 % +15.26 % +0.01 %
Reference Indicator - - - +0.42 % -1.48 % +15.56 % -5.79 % -1.82 % -5.90 % +8.89 % -0.19 %

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3 Years 5 Years 10 Years
Carmignac Portfolio EM Debt FW EUR Acc +3.56 % +7.93 % -
Reference Indicator +1.14 % +0.86 % -

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Source : Carmignac at 29/02/2024

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