EMF News and Press, Templeton Emerging Markets Fund From 05/03/23

2023-05-03 03:30:00 ET Summary Carry is a strategy that uses forward contracts to mimic the capture of spread through borrowing in low-interest-rate currencies and investing in high-interest-rate currencies. Recession concerns and slowdown predictions have been mostly U.S.-centric...

2023-05-02 02:15:00 ET Summary Stock and bond markets ended the first quarter of 2023 with solid gains despite investor concerns. Gains in the stock and bond markets were primarily driven by a continued decline in interest rates, the rate of inflation, and surprisingly resilient e...

2023-04-25 11:55:00 ET Summary We believe fixed income markets present fundamental advantages that enable active managers to outperform benchmarks. These include market inefficiencies, index rules and reconstitutions, participant motivation, and trading inefficiencies. In fixed in...

2023-04-24 10:30:00 ET Summary We are leaning into our preference for emerging market (EM) assets due to China’s restart, ending EM interest rate hiking cycles and a weaker U.S. dollar. Global stocks were flat on the week. PMI data showed economic activity holding up in the...

2023-04-23 11:27:00 ET Summary The IMF expects slowing global growth and slowing global inflation to eventually return developed market interest rates down to levels that make sovereign debt sustainable. Banking problems in the US and Europe result in slower credit growth, but are...

2023-04-22 05:52:00 ET Summary Emerging markets have become a global hub for innovation. Data centers are essential for migration to ChatGPT. We are at the beginning of transitioning from the old world to the new world. By Sergey Davalchenko Transcrip...

2023-04-19 12:25:00 ET Summary China’s stronger-than-expected growth bodes well for many EMs – but does it also mean additional inflation risks down the toad? Even though the IMF spring meetings eased concerns about a recession in advanced economies, both the U.S. an...

The following Funds announced today their share repurchase activity during the first quarter of 2023. Share Repurchases seek to enhance shareholder value by purchasing the Fund’s shares when trading at a discount to the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) per share. All...

2023-04-14 00:00:00 ET Summary Deposits are the main source of funding for EM commercial banks. Some frontier countries still lag in terms of regulatory best practices. The volatility seen in the aftermath of recent events created investment opportunities. There has ...

2023-04-12 01:39:00 ET Summary We believe that beyond China, EMs offer an attractive and differentiated opportunity set - one which drove our launch of our EM ex China Growth strategy. Ex China, EMs have much more technology (particularly semiconductor and broad hardware), materia...