About
Firm
Terra Nova Capital
Terra Nova Capital is the investment advisor to the Evli Emerging Frontier Fund. The boutique investors distinguish themselves by meeting every single company before investing, analyzing alpha-accretive ESG factors in their company assessment, and engaging with companies through active ownership to unlock value.
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In order to get deeper immersion in the markets in which they invest, the investment duo spent 12 months living in 12 different emerging markets with their families, a project which was featured in a Bloomberg News article and a Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast. They have received a great deal of positive feedback on their entertaining and widely-read trip reports which they publish on their website.
Group
Terra Nova Capital is part of the Evli Group, Finland's largest independent asset manager with $20 billion AUM. Evli offers individuals, companies and institutions a full
range of investment products and services, as well as corporate and advisory services. In 2024 it was awarded as the best fund house in the Nordics by Lipper, as well as the best fund house in both its home market Finland and the largest Nordic fund market Sweden by Morningstar. Evli is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki stock exchange, and has been a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) since 2010.
Fund
Evli Emerging Frontier Fund
Evli Emerging Frontier is a $250m index-agnostic, absolute return oriented, bottom-up fund that invests in misunderstood and undervalued high-quality growth companies listed on stock exchanges in developing countries across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
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Launched in late 2013, the fund has been recognized as the #1 best performer out of all 1,500 emerging market funds listed on Bloomberg for the 10-year period 2014-2023 returning 3x, as well as the #1 best performer for last 5-years with an average return of 15.4% compared to the MSCI Emerging Markets index which returned 3.3%. It delivered this performance with below average volatility, and it has received accolades from Morningstar, Citywire, and Lipper which gave it the "Best Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund in Europe" award in 2023 and 2024.
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The fund's clients include pension funds and insurance companies in Finland and Sweden, as well as family offices in other parts of Europe and the Middle East.
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Learn more about the Evli Emerging Frontier Fund​ here.