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By Alberto J. Boquin, CFA This year's COVID shock accelerated a secular decline in interest rates around the world. Emerging market ((EM)) rates are no exception. The yield on the JPMorgan Emerging Market Local Currency Index (GBI-EM) declined to a series low of 4.6% compared to a 6.3% av...

Some tech companies are not only surviving the pandemic, but are actually thriving as consumers in lockdown go online. Anthony Okolie speaks with Christian Medeiros, Associate Portfolio Manager, TD Asset Management, about tech companies in emerging markets that are stepping up. Transcr...

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Sign up for Let's Talk ETFs on your favorite podcast platform: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play Stitcher By Jonathan Liss With investors increasingly looking to invest in companies that align with their personal values, "ESG" funds ("ESG" stands for Environ...

In the final post of our three-part series, the Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity Team explains how emerging market companies are innovating. New Reality #3: Emerging market companies have leapfrogged established models through innovation and technology. Emerging market economie...

As emerging markets cope with the COVID-19 epidemic, Franklin Templeton's Emerging Markets Equity team considers three new realities they see in the emerging markets today. This second post in a three-part series examines how emerging markets have diversified their economies. In our first...

Economies across the globe have begun to emerge from various stages of COVID-19 lockdowns and look toward recovering economic growth. Franklin Templeton's Emerging Markets Equity team considers three new realities they see in the emerging markets today-some of which may help certain countries ...

Emerging market equities advanced overall in May as investors welcomed a gradual easing of coronavirus-related lockdowns in several parts of the world. However, renewed US-China trade tensions capped some optimism. Our Emerging Markets Equity team examines these and other events shaping market...

By Adriaan du Toit Emerging markets ((EM)) are at a crossroads. The impact of COVID-19 aggravates pre-existing challenges. But it also enables those EM economies that respond effectively to create better conditions for the future. EM authorities face critical policy decisions. Certain ...

By Justin Leverenz, CFA, Team Leader and Senior Portfolio Manager Understanding the economic stresses across EM is important. Still, it does not affect our core approach to investing, which is to unearth extraordinary companies, even in low-growth economies that we believe have the pot...