One of the easiest and simplest ways to gain exposure to emerging market equities is via an ETF. Some of the world’s top emerging market ETFs benchmark to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index offered by the index provider MSCI. In fact, according to MSCI over $1.5 Trillion in assets are benchmarked to this index. The MSCI Emerging Markets …
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Emerging market stocks are in vogue again in recent months. After abandoning these markets in the past few years global investors are slowly returning back to them in order to profit from higher growth potential than in developed markets. It is important to note however that not all emerging markets are driven by similar forces. …
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Emerging market equities can offer substantially higher returns than developed equities due to many reasons. For instance, the economies of developing countries grow much higher and faster than developed countries.While firms in the developed world may struggle to grow their market share in the domestic market companies in the emerging world may continue to expand …
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Emerging markets are performing well so far this year. But until last year they were depressed as investors avoided them for a variety of reasons including the plunge in commodity prices. According to an article at Franklin Templeton, these markets are showing signs of recovery ass earnings, exports and commodity prices are on the upswing. …
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