Antonio Ricardo Xavier Filho

AIML specializes in Emerging Market investments and their investment philosophy centers on a specialist, long-term approach starting with macro, top-down active management. The firm manages around $55 billion in Emerging Market debt, equity and alternatives.

Ashmore Brasil is an active, team-oriented manager which focuses on value and liquidity, managing products in distinct onshore and offshore platforms within different investment themes. The firm's portfolio management and research team employs a liquidity-focused and value-driven strategy targeting total return, believing that it leads to above-average returns with lower risk over the cycle. They focus on a number of investment themes including external debt, local currency, special situations, corporate high yield and equity. Ashmore Brasil employs bottom up and top-down approaches to select equities, focusing on behavior of local and international investors and policy makers in different scenarios, particularly special situations combining distressed debt and private equity. The firm makes decisions primarily at weekly Investment Committee meetings, integrating research and risk management in the process.