Emerging markets to bounce back

Ray Prasad is a Boston-based senior global emerging markets portfolio manager at Batterymarch Financial Management. He joined Batterymarch in 1997 to perform emerging markets research and was promoted to portfolio manager in 2000. In 2005, he was named senior portfolio manager, with primary responsibility for Asian markets.

Prasad focuses primarily on the Asian markets within Batterymarch's emerging markets team, which manages around $3 billion in emerging Asian equities in both dedicated portfolios and broader mandates. Batterymarch, which has a quantitative and fundamental approach to investing, manages more than $23 billion in equity assets worldwide. He shares with AsianInvestor his views about emerging markets.