CAMRADATA Live activity: The vaccine jolt for emerging markets Mithursha Kesavan. The economic recovery that is expected for 2021 may give hope for emerging markets investors. The rapid rollout of Covid-19 vaccines means nations with developing economies are now able to vaccinate at a faster rate and this, hopefully, should have a positive impact on the sector. In CAMRADATA Live, the top asset classes by investor research activity in the last three months to 31 December last year shows that emerging markets equities were fourth in the ranking. The investors were primarily pension funds at 90% and insurance companies at around 10%. Looking at the top five asset managers’ selected products, Aberdeen Standard Investments came top for this particular asset class. However, in the past year, the top-performing firm for emerging markets equities has been Artisan with its Artisan Developing World vehicle. This gave an absolute return of 83.46% with a standard deviation of 22.73%.