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By Justin Leverenz , Team Leader and Senior Portfolio Manager The teens proved to be a difficult decade for emerging markets. That setback came after EM stocks delivered strong returns in the first decade of the 2000s, as the MSCI Emerging Markets Index outperformed the S&P 500 by...
By Shamaila Khan In a banner year for capital markets, emerging market debt ((EMD)) posted healthy double-digit returns. Global central bank easing, among other supportive factors, helped drive a broad-based rally across nearly all emerging market ((EM)) countries. Can this strength contin...
By Kurt Reiman Emerging market debt may carry higher risk, but there are three important considerations that might make it a suitable choice for your portfolio. Finding attractive sources of income has become more challenging in the post-crisis era as interest rates hover near record l...
By Carol Lye Cheap valuations in late 2018 had set the stage for an emerging market recovery, and finally receiving a lifeline this year. The Federal Reserve (Fed) cut rates three times totaling 75 basis points (bps), and equally important, oil prices stayed relatively flattish. As such, e...
By Justin Leverenz and Tan Nguyen Executive Summary There is a widely held perception that emerging market ((EM)) debt growth was spread broadly across markets. The truth is that the growth in the past decade has been focused almost entirely in China. EM economies have low lev...
(Source - Pexels ) There are few areas of the bond market that investors like more than dollar-denominated emerging market sovereign bonds. They carry no direct currency risk and have steadily paid a yield of around 6% since 2010 despite falling rates in developed markets. For many, EM bond...
We believe one of the most attractive features of emerging markets debt, from a portfolio construction perspective, is the diversification potential it can provide. Within emerging markets debt, local currency bonds have historically provided the greatest diversification benefit compared to U....
The reversal in developed markets interest rates over the past year provides a useful case study of how changing market expectations around developed markets rates impacts emerging markets bonds. As shown in the chart below, expectations for a rate hike at the recent July 31, 2019 U.S. Federal...
Lower interest rates in developed markets have been the key driver of emerging markets debt returns so far this year, despite several idiosyncratic stories and emerging markets central banks that have until recently exhibited an overall tightening bias. In our view, the shift in policy global...
Central banks are shifting toward monetary easing, as they aim to cushion a global slowdown sparked by trade tensions. This policy pivot should help stretch the cycle and has depressed long-term yields, creating a supportive backdrop for income-generating assets. One such asset we favor: local...
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