Emerging market equities can provide both return and diversification benefits, but only with a consistent and meaningful portfolio allocation.
Results for: Emerging Markets
Emerging market equities should catch a lift in the year ahead as tactical and structural tailwinds align to drive accelerating economic and earnings growth. But a stylistically balanced approach is crucial to handle inevitable market turbulence.
Cornerstone macro anticipates a Goldilocks environment post-COVID-19.
China and Chinese tech companies are a significant part of the emerging market equities index, and for good reason. But disciplined portfolio diversification and balance can effectively manage risk exposures.
Cornerstone Macro Expects V-Rebound in 3Q to Usher in More Mature Phase of Globalization.
Coronavirus-induced market volatility is another in a long string of blows to the global economic recovery. But investors should look through the disruptions for free-cash-flow companies with healthy balance sheets and resilient, if not robust earnings.
In EM, balance your style and let promising stocks lead the way.
If the novel coronavirus' spread hurts some industries, others are positioned to benefit from the fallout. Examining the short- and long-term implications of the virus' effect on global supply chains.
Exogenous factors often knock well-positioned markets temporarily off track, sometimes repeatedly. But dislocated share prices ultimately re-align with business fundamentals, earnings growth and attractive valuations.
After false starts in the last few years, we believe emerging markets are set to deliver strong performance in the year to come thanks to accelerating and broad-based drivers.
Associate Portfolio Manager Josh Rubin discusses how disciplined security selection, sound portfolio construction and calibrated rebalancing can create a clear, consistent framework for value-added investing in emerging markets.
EM is more than just a "nice to have."
The market has bid up Brazilian assets in anticipation of economic reforms, but the optimism should be well measured and individual securities well picked.
Correlations in "growth" and "value" equity factors may undercut the diversification benefits of benchmark-relative exposures to sectors and geographies. Consistent portfolio balance by "styles," though, can lower beta and lift alpha.
It's one of the best times to invest in emerging markets.
After a turbulent May, China and emerging markets appear poised to resume their ascent from the first quarter, even as trade-related air pockets remain likely.
Despite sprinting higher so far this year, developing country equities appear well positioned to sustain their momentum, and with less volatility.
Will emerging markets stocks rebound in 2019? Attractive valuations, strong forecast earnings growth, structural reforms, and an abating dollar headwind suggest they will.
Positive catalysts are in place in all three countries, and across emerging markets valuations and earnings expectations make for a potential rebound in 2019.
Deep declines are usually followed by rebounds that leave emerging market stocks with gains by year end, as the structural tailwinds are driven by steadily expanding middle classes. Meaningful, consistent exposures to the asset class are key to capitalizing on the long-run double-digit returns.
Turkish asset prices have plummeted this year, bringing their valuations to historically low levels. That presents potentially attractive opportunities to investors looking for quality stocks at bargain-basement prices.
The Fed chairman makes clear the bar for slowing monetary tightening is higher nowadays, and argues emerging markets are much better positioned to handle higher U.S. yields than they were before.
Yet the earnings potential of developed and emerging markets stocks is real, since they are at earlier points in their respective business cycles.
EM ETFs suffered deviations in their market prices relative to their net asset values, with their total returns materially underperforming the broad emerging market index.
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