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By Manraj Sekhon, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity While the United States and Europe are just starting to feel the economic impacts of the coronavirus, China is starting to recover. In our latest "Talking Markets" podcast, Manraj Sekhon, Chief Inv...
By Bassel Khatoun, Managing Director, Director of Research, Director of Portfolio Management, Frontier and MENA, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity Falling oil prices can be a double-edged sword in terms of economic impact: welcomed by consumers, but not by producers. Franklin Temp...
Introduction Monday was an enlightening day with the S&P 500 falling 7.6%, real estate falling 4% to 5%, corporate bonds falling 0.8% to 2%, and gold was not much protection. Tuesday was a choppy day with the S&P 500 rising 4.9%. As I conclude this article, Wednesday stock futures ap...
A version of this material originally appeared in the Financial Times on 26 February 2020. The debt burdens carried by emerging markets have become a regular feature of reports on threats to financial stability. The total debt for 30 large EM countries reached $72.5tn in 2019, a 168 percen...
Originally posted on Feb 25, 2020 Mary-Catherine Lader : What do you think of when you think of emerging markets? Well, if portfolios are any indication, many investors actually shy away. Emerging markets, or EMs, are unfamiliar territory to most. And that fear of the unknown may be eno...
By Subash Pillai, Head of Client Investment Solutions - APAC, Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions While there are a number of uncertainties in the global economy today, many investors may not realize the depth and breadth of potential opportunities emerging markets still offer - on b...
By Sammy Suzuki The way to think about emerging markets is changing and oftentimes people don't fully realize that. It used to be that [the] emerging market was the factory to the world. It's where they made cheap stuff for the developed markets. But that's changing. Even in the ...
Our emerging markets equity team looks at news and events shaping emerging market performances in January, from coronavirus fears to trade to Middle East tensions. Three Things We're Thinking About Today The outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus in China, which has spread across Asia an...
By Ansh Chaudhary The ETF Deathwatch list decreased in size in January. Ten exchange-traded products ("ETPs") were added to the list, and 23 funds were removed. Of the removals, 17 were removed due to increased health and six were due to asset managers closing their funds. Equities continu...
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...