From a port in Brazil to parcels in Poland, how Utilico Emerging Markets invests within the spine of progress: INVESTING SHOW

Utilico Emerging Markets is a unique investment trust backing infrastructure and utilities in emerging markets, seeking to deliver profits and dividends to investors from the growth taking place there.

The trust allows UK investors to back stock market listed ports, airports, toll roads, power stations, gas and communications around the world, outside of the US, Western Europe, Japan and Australia.

It offers a different twist on emerging markets investing and taps into the integral elements of the fast-growing economies of the world.

Utilico Emerging Markets co-manager Charles Jillings joins Simon Lambert on this episode of the Investing Show to discuss everything from electric cars in China, to rail lines in Brazil and Argentina’s nascent economic recovery.

He explains how the trust holds shares in companies rather than holding assets themselves and the managers travel around the world checking out the actual infrastructure, for example, to see whether a port really functions well.

With sentiment downbeat on emerging markets, Utilico EM shares are currently trading on an 18 per cent to its net asset value and offer a dividend yield of 4.24 per cent.

Over one year, the trust is up just 3.3 per cent, but over five years it is up 80.9 per cent, according to AIC / Morningstar figures. It has ongoing charges of 1.5 per cent.

How Utilico Emerging Markets invests in different elements around the world