The latest in funds and investments across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Seneca Investment Managers
UK-based Seneca Investment Managers has launched the HMG Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund to its diversified growth portfolio.

The fund is run by a Paris based team, led by Marc and Paul Girault. The fund focuses on emerging market listed subsidiaries of multinational developed market businesses.

The portfolio construction of the fund is made up of around 76 per cent of small to mid-caps, with allocations to frontier markets such as Africa.

BlackRock
Global asset manager BlackRock has launched a global equity small cap exchange traded fund, which aims to meet demand for exposure to developed market small-cap companies.

The iShares MSCI World Small Cap UCITS ETF will also provide exposure to companies within real estate, industrials and materials.

The index provides access to over 4,000 small-sized companies from 23 developed market countries globally, accounting for approximately 14 per cent of the free float-adjusted market capitalisation across each country.

The ETF has a total expense ratio of 0.35 per cent.