MSF News and Press, Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Fund Inc. From 06/05/21

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...

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...

The major asset classes delivered across-the-board gains for a second month in a row in May. Everything apart from cash was up last month, led by a sizzling rally in foreign inflation-linked government bonds. The FTSE Russell World Inflation Index ex-US surged 4.0% last month, the...

As an expected wave of re-openings sweeps the developing world, a serendipitous set of external dynamics could fuel the post-pandemic recovery in the EM asset class. A strong manufacturing cycle and decade-high commodity prices are dominant drivers of what we expect to be a strong rec...

Several research studies have found significant liquidity risk premium in inflation-linked markets, both in developed and emerging markets. After substantial QE, G7 central banks now hold a high proportion of outstanding government debt, reducing the "free-float" in government debt ma...

When it comes to Chinese equity targets, whether by activists or regulators, the picture is murky. Because a chunk of our emerging markets equity business excludes all companies with more than 20% state ownership, we had none of the 44 PLA-affiliated companies in the WisdomTree Emergi...

Although some short-term supply bottlenecks and financial speculation might drive commodity prices and inflation expectations further from here, a few big-picture facts are worth noting. The consensus expects consumer spending to keep accelerating because some households have higher s...

If you believe that the S&P 500 is poised for a secular bear market, then GLD can be a great hedge for portfolios. Despite the weakness in large-cap tech and high-beta growth the last 6 months and in 2021, respectively, I’m not convinced the secular bull market in the S&...