ISAPF - Why Emerging Market Debt Remains Attractive Despite Near-Term Uncertainty
By Nicholas Hardingham, CFA, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Emerging Market Debt Analyst, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income
With some countries slowly lifting coronavirus lockdown periods, does it make sense to invest in risk assets again - namely emerging markets? Franklin Templeton Fixed Income's Nicholas Hardingham takes a look at the emerging market debt landscape in the wake of the coronavirus.
We certainly are in an unprecedented time today, and all assets - including emerging market debt - have experienced heightened volatility in the first quarter of the year. We started to see an avoidance of