VWO News and Press, Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets From 04/13/23

2023-04-13 12:53:39 ET Summary EEM is heavily exposed to the Asian region, but things look promising here. EEM comes across as a sub-optimal EM option relative to its largest peers. Forward valuations are cheap, and EEM could benefit from mean-reversion. Introducti...

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...

2023-04-11 13:18:35 ET Summary The Fed was quick to keep rates near zero when the pandemic struck. However, it made a mistake to see inflation as transitory and kept rates low for too long. As a result, the Fed needed to raise rates at an aggressive pace and magnitude to keep infl...

2023-04-07 11:11:00 ET Summary The liquidity crisis impacting selected developed market banks has unnerved emerging market investors. Markets have recovered from the turmoil following the liquidity crisis impacting some banks in the United States and Europe. Emerging Asian sto...

2023-04-07 06:14:01 ET Summary Bridgewater Associates’ 13F portfolio value decreased from ~$19.75B to ~$18.32B this quarter. They increased Berkshire Hathaway and Estee Launder while reducing Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola. The top t...

2023-04-05 05:00:00 ET Summary Finding an effective way to address reinvestment opportunities will be crucial. Multi-sector should be more tactical, with the return objective generally expected to be positive in absolute terms over a cycle. The available sectors can be similar...

2023-04-05 03:00:00 ET Summary A silver lining of 2022 - the most challenging bond market in 40 years - is that bond yields rose to levels not seen since 2007. Concerns about the financial sector led bond prices to rise and yields to fall in March 2023, a reminder that investors o...

2023-04-04 10:07:00 ET Summary The expected long-run return for the Global Market Index held steady at 6.0% annualized in March. GMI represents a theoretical benchmark of the optimal portfolio for the average investor with an infinite time horizon. By contrast, GMI’s pr...

2023-04-03 18:33:00 ET Summary SPDR FTSE International Government Inflation-Protected Bond ETF,  which rose 5.2%, more than recovering from the previous month’s loss. Vanguard Global ex-U.S. Real Estate Index Fund posted last month’s steepest loss, shedding 2.8%...

2023-04-02 05:04:00 ET Summary Over the past several weeks a remarkable shift in the market’s perception of growth, inflation and policy trajectories means investors should consider calling the market equivalent of a time-out to reassess portfolios. Importantly, as the Fed&...