FEM News and Press, First Trust Emerging Markets AlphaDEX Fund From 06/24/21

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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...

Next week is filled with Fed speak that could show more policymakers are turning hawkish given the Fed’s overall surprise with pricing pressures this year. Currency markets are bracing for potentially more dollar momentum as the Fed has signaled they are now not willing to tole...

Last year's pandemic crisis U-trip took just 128 days - significantly less than the long-term average, despite a once-in-a-generation healthcare crisis. While the recovery speed has varied, the global economy is clearly on the mend. We believe that the next phase of the reopening/...

We expect that the impact of the U.S. trifecta will continue to wane, supporting a sustained weak dollar regime and opportunities in overseas markets. There’s no doubt that the U.S. economy is in the midst of a strong recovery. As global vaccination efforts continue and eco...

Emerging markets are still expected to lead the global economic recovery, with forecasted 2021 GDP growth of 6.7% vs. 6.4% for the United States. EM equities rose in May and outpaced developed market stocks. We believe that EMs will continue to show resilience with many countries ...

We got another disappointing employment report last week. The US economy added 559,000 jobs in May, which was below expectations and disappointing. There are certainly remaining supply-side issues in the economy, which is what we should expect in a recovery from a supply shock. The pr...

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...

Diversification remains key, as I've said a couple of times, and we'd always drive that point home. More broadly, as we think about asset allocation, we think that the convexity of equities look quite good in terms of a strong recovery, in terms of the early nature of a cyclical recov...