Emerging Market Mutual Fund Manager Survey

Q1. What is your gender?
  Male
  Female

Q2. What is your age bracket?
  18-28
  29-39
  40-50
  50-60
  60+
  Prefer not to state

Q3. Which is the closest match to your investment strategy?
  Index-Based/Passive
  Active
  Algorithimic
  Other

Q4. Does your investment strategy include any qualitative analysis?
  Yes
  No

The answers to the following questions will attempt to build a profile of a company in an emerging market that you would favour as an investor and typically invest in.

If a question is irrelevant to your investment decision, please do not answer it. Not answering a question is just as useful to the investigation

On a scale of 1 to 6 please rate your level of agreement with the following statements.
  Strongly Agree Strongly Disagree
  1 2 3 4 5 6
Q5. "I prefer to invest in companies where the decision-making is dispersed throughout the company in a decentralised structure."
Q6. "Sources of information found in the public domain are enough alone to make an investment decision."
Q7. "When it comes to investment decisions, the more information I can personally find the better."
Q8. "As a fund manager, I feel I need to maintain an information edge over non-fund managers to keep ahead of the game."
Q9. "The management quality of a company is always reflected in its share price."
Q10. "As a large investor, I feel I have the ability to address underperformance in a company."
Q11. "As a large investor, I feel I have the ability to address underperformance in an emerging market company."
Q12. "As a large investor, I would address underperformance in an emerging market company."
Q13. "As a fund manager, I feel pressured by my shareholders to deviate from very common investments."
Q14. "I prefer to invest in companies with a flatter hierarchical structure."
Q15. "If I am to invest in a company, I prefer the wage distribution to be more even than disparate; top management earning up to 30 times more than middle management is a bad thing."
Q16. "Having many supervisory roles within a company makes for an unattractive investment."
Q17. "As an outside investor, I feel that I don't have access to the same quality of information as the local investors and businessmen."
Q18. "I prefer the companies I invest in to have a willingness to take risks."
Q19. "As an investor, I prefer the company I invest in to have a flexible and dynamic workforce"
Q20. "As an investor, I prefer the company I invest in to have more generalist employees than specialists; compartmentalisation is not favourable."
Q21. "The prospect of investing in people whose culture I don't understand worries me."
Q22. "I understand what motivates those who look after themselves; I don't understand what motivates those who place a higher emphasis on groups. As an investor this lack of understanding worries me."
Q23. "As an outside investor, the idea of an organisation as an introvert family worries me as I might be the last consideration."
Q24. "Investing in a business that utilises personal networks leaves me worried about the potential break-ups of those networks."
Q25. "As an investor, I worry if the workforce of a company is extremely loyal to the management."
Q26. "As an investor, I value thrift in a company."
Q27. "As an investor, I believe a company's respect for traditional social obligations can get in the way of financial gain and is a bad thing from my perspective."
Q28. "I prefer to invest in companies with a long term orientation and with individuals ready to delay gratification."
Q29. "If a respected colleague feels an emerging market investment is sound then I am inclined to feel the same."
Q30. "An aggressive workforce plays an important part in companies I invest in."
Q31. "A workforce with soft skills plays an important part in companies I invest in."
Q32. "I prefer to invest in companies with more women in more qualified jobs."
Q33. "I prefer to invest in companies where organisations do not interfere with the employees' private lives."
Q34. "The agency costs in emerging markets are just as much of a worry as those at home."
Q35. "The misallocation of assets through leveraged control pyramids worries me as an investor."


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