Ashmore, the London-listed specialist emerging markets manager, has enjoyed its strongest quarter for net inflows in four years, in the latest sign of investors' renewed appetite for the sector.

Ashmore said today in a trading update for its fiscal first quarter that net inflows totalled $4.3bn in the three months to the end of September – the highest quarterly inflow figure since the firm garnered $4.5bn in new money in the three months to June 30, 2013.