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Advance Developing Markets Trust

British investment trust

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4686058 ↗
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Advance Developing Markets Trust was a large British investment trust dedicated to investments in emerging markets. Established in 1998, the company was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index until September 2008 when it was dissolved. It was a fund of funds and so invested indirectly in emerging markets through other funds and was managed by Progressive Assets Management. The Chairman was Peter O'Connor.

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This entry incorporates text from “Advance Developing Markets Trust” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.