EM Leaders, LLC
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About
EM Leaders serves institutional investors seeking exposure to emerging markets. The firm provides investment advisory services focused on selecting and monitoring local investment managers across multiple emerging-market jurisdictions and offers multi-manager or fund-of-fund supervisory services and a subscription newsletter.
The firm’s process emphasizes intensive local due diligence and manager selection — the brochure describes analyzing hundreds of local managers in a single market in collaboration with local accountants, lawyers, bankers, and analysts — and it documents client objectives and constraints in an Investment Policy Statement to guide portfolio construction and ongoing monitoring. EML offers both comprehensive multi‑manager solutions and limited project-based engagements, and uses a range of techniques including long- and short-term trading, short sales, margin, and options.
What is noteworthy is that a solo independent adviser is building pooled vehicle/fund-of-fund offerings while also accepting performance‑based fees from qualified institutional investors, arrangements the firm discloses can create conflicts and that it addresses through disclosure and trading policies. The brochure also notes the firm is finalizing two multi‑manager platforms (a broader emerging-market equities platform and a beyond-BRIC equities platform) and provides institutional financial planning alongside its manager-selection services.
Client services
Expertise
Occupation focus
Fee options
Financial Planning fees ranging from $20,000 to $200,000, fixed fees, paid in advance
1.00% annually (Investment Supervisory Services)
10% of capital gains/capital appreciation above high water mark, paid quarterly in arrears, charged in addition to 1.00% AUM fee
Account minimum: $10,000 (may be waived by investment advisor based on client needs and complexity)
Main office
6204 Verne Street
Bethesda MD 20817
Advisors at this office
1
Most active in
Maryland
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