EDD News and Press, Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Domestic Debt Fund Inc. From 06/30/21

The reopening should continue across the major developed economies through the second half of 2021. The focus for markets has shifted to the strength of the growth rebound, the implications for inflation and the timing of central bank moves to taper asset purchases and eventually rais...

With the economic recovery undeniably ramping up, we ask managers for their thoughts on valuations in the markets. While lockdowns were protracted affairs for so many of us, the economic recovery has been astoundingly rapid in many parts of the world. Regardless of the shift in to...

PIMCO’s baseline outlook for the cyclical horizon has the global economy continuing its uneven recovery before shifting to a more moderate pace of above-trend growth in 2022. With the pandemic receding across much of the world, policy support has also likely peaked and will tur...

Growth in emerging Asia is likely to remain uneven amid a slow vaccine rollout, pushing out our expectations for a full recovery into 2022. The main bottleneck, in our view, is the limited supply of vaccine doses. We expect uneven economic performance across EM Asia in 2021 and ha...

Slow vaccine rollouts threaten to take a sizable human toll and create deep, lasting economic scars across emerging markets. Productivity sets the boundaries for a country’s sustainable debt. The COVID-19 pandemic has been universally devastating, with some EMs at risk of l...

From a consumer perspective, the consumer is actually now demanding a focus on environmental, social, governance factors. If public expectations for inflation do rise, that is going to be a change from years past. There’s going to be an opportunity to make medical progress ...

Emerging Market debt remains an attractive but underutilized sector for income investors. The high-yield corporate EM external debt sector continues to trade at attractive valuations and has delivered stronger historic returns than its US equivalent. The sector offers different in...

At first sight, the yield increase in emerging markets local bonds so far this year is not significantly out of line with what we saw in developed markets. In some cases (the Czech Republic, Hungary and South Korea), central banks are already expected to tighten monetary policy. G...

Risk-adjusted performance for the Global Market Index (GMI) continued to tick higher in May. GMI’s Sharpe ratio — a measure of risk-adjusted return – rose to 0.82 on a trailing 10-year basis through last month. That’s close to a pandemic high, but still...

The Global Market Index’s (GMI) expected risk premium held steady at 5.9% annualized in May, matching the previous month’s estimate. The framework for estimating equilibrium returns was initially outlined in a 1974 paper by Professor Bill Sharpe. Keep in mind, too, t...