EDD News and Press, Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Domestic Debt Fund Inc. From 03/09/22

As ESG has taken on greater relevance in recent years, the gold mining industry has become more transparent. More and more companies are providing standalone sustainability reports which are increasingly more comprehensive and detailed. We expect companies to link compensation to ...

We do feel that ESG risks are difficult to quantify, but all investing is a difficult activity. Emerging-market corporates deal with things like macroeconomic imbalances, sovereign defaults, COVID, but yet two-thirds of the issues are partially driven by ESG considerations. What t...

More securities labeled as environmental, social, and governance (ESG) bonds are being issued by a wider variety of companies than ever before. ESG-labeled bond issuance surged to new heights in 2021. As new ESG-linked issues proliferate, it’s critical that investors use a ...

As the world reels from the crisis, the blowback is rippling across the world economy and markets. The current risk premia analysis implicitly recommends managing expectations down for GMI and other global multi-asset-class portfolios. The mean reversion factor is estimated as the...

We’re optimistic that securities labeled as environmental, social and governance (ESG) bonds will help create a better, more sustainable world. Assessing an ESG-labeled bond means delving deeper than an issuer’s financials into the bond’s governing framework and i...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index edged down in January from the previous month’s estimate. Using short-term momentum and medium-term mean-reversion market factors to adjust the forecast reduces GMI’s ex-ante risk premium to an annualized 5.4%. Th...

Jan van Eck, CEO of VanEck, discusses his thoughts on the top themes to watch going into 2022. The world economy came into 2021 like a car going 200 miles an hour, which fueled by the biggest stimulus we'd gotten since World War II. The Fed is sort of the cause of the uncertainty ...

There are several reasons to be constructive about emerging markets (EMs) heading into 2022. Across EMs, positive structural forces remain apparent and are likely to foster fresh investment opportunities. Certain risks could change our overall EM outlook, although they are not in ...

There’s not necessarily muscle - or an enforcement mechanism - behind ambitious commitments. Nations’ sense of urgency, unity, and commitment has increased with every COP summit. As a result, the GCP represents the most ambitious climate policy declaration to date. O...

Chinese equities, particularly offshore equities, suffered relentlessly in the headlines for their negative performance. And both India and China have been increasingly reliant on imported energy, which includes coal, oil, and others. The more volatile the weather and global deman...