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Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:

When Rajiv Jain left Zurich-based Vontobel Asset Management to strike out on his own in May of last year, shares of parent company Vontobel Holding AG dropped 11 percent in one day. Jain was the CIO of Vontobel Asset Management, a group within Vontobel Holdings, and he was also a career outperformer. Over his tenure, he helped to grow the firm from less than $400 million in assets under management in 2002 to nearly $50 billion in assets under management at the time of his departure in 2016.

At Vontobel, Jain was also the manager of the $9.4 billion Virtus Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund, a fund which at that time, had beat 99 percent of its peers over five years, according to fund performance data.

After a brief hiatus, Jain has returned to asset management as the Chairman and CIO of Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based GQG Partners. Jain joined GQG Partners in June 2016 and oversees all of the firm's strategies.

Today, Jain and GQG are launching the GQG Partners Emerging Markets Equity Fund (GQGPX). The fund, which invests in high-quality, large-cap companies in emerging market economies, will run the same emerging markets strategy Jain led at Vontobel, in a low-fee structure. "This is very much a bottom-up strategy, where we are focused on finding individual companies in emerging markets that are poised to do well regardless of what happens in the country in macro terms," Jain said in an interview with Opalesque......................

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