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ETF Daily News (blog)
April 20, 2018
The fading relationship between emerging-market policy and U.S. rates suggest that the bloc is less susceptible to the fast Fed policy tightening, per Goldman. In any case, Deutsche Bankonce noted that the correlation between EM performance and the benchmark U.S. Treasury yields since 2010 has beenÃâà...
Barron's
April 20, 2018
Investing in emerging market debt is a complex undertaking that requires connecting the dots of interest rates, currencies, and geopolitics. ... was an ideal training ground for his current role as the lead portfolio manager of the $125 million Hartford Schroders Emerging Markets Multi-Sector Bond fund.
euronews
April 20, 2018
Onslow Capital's fund had lost 0.18 percent in the first two months of 2018, before closing, compared with gains of 2.05 percent for the average emerging market hedge fund over the same period, a company source said. The fund lost 3 percent in 2017 when the average emerging market hedge fund madeÃâà...
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
April 20, 2018
Emerging-markets funds are on fire. Over the past 12 months through April 18, the MSCI Emerging Markets index has returned 27.1%. That's 7.6 percentage points more than the MSCI EAFE index of developed countries outside the U.S. and 9.6 percentage points better than Standard & Poor's 500-stockÃâà...
CNBC
April 19, 2018
Emerging markets look like they could be at the losing end when the U.S. Federal Reserve raises interest rates and when oil prices climb, but there are still enough reasons to invest in bonds from developing countries, Bank of Singapore said Thursday. Rising interest rates make it harder for governmentsÃâà...
ETF.com
April 17, 2018
Not only were investors earning much lower returns from emerging market stocks, they also were experiencing much greater volatility. While the annual standard deviation of the S&P 500 Index was about 15% per year, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index's standard deviation was about 23% per year.
ETF.com
April 17, 2018
China has been the focus of a brewing debate over global trade, as it battles the U.S. on a long list of proposed tariffs. Markets don't like trade wars. But the ongoing battle hasn't done much to deter investor appetite for emerging market ETFs. That's because the segment continues to show positive priceÃâà...
MarketWatch
April 17, 2018
Whereas broad emerging markets returned 4.6 percent annually over the last five years and emerging value registered 1.7 percent gains, the S&P 500 chalked up 16.2 percent a year.3 These are 'bull market problems,' but they are still problems. Emerging market value stocks are clear laggards.” InvestorsÃâà...
Barron's
April 14, 2018
Emerging market debt continues to be a favored area of fixed income, including at BlackRock's bond team, which cites attractive yields that are still relatively cheap versus other global options. But even the bulls, like Amer Bisat, head of BlackRock's sovereign and emerging markets alpha team, areÃâà...
Business Insider
April 4, 2018
I'm not sure about all that, but I do see a strong correlation between it and Emerging Market stocks. Today we're taking a look at these two assets and why Copper's next move is likely to coincide with the direction of Emerging Market stocks. Here is a chart of the Emerging Markets Index Fund $EEM at theÃâà...
ETF.com
April 4, 2018
In 2017, investors poured more than $160 billion into international equity ETFs—almost as much as they did into U.S. equity funds—and emerging market funds were big in-takers, with ETFs like the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG) and the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO)Ãâà...
ImpactAlpha
April 3, 2018
Mexico and India are among the top 10 green bond issuers, but activity in other emerging markets is low. France, the US and China account for most of the $155.5 billion total green bond issues through December 2017. The fund, now called Amundi Planet–Emerging Green One fund, launched last yearÃâà...
Financial Tribune
April 3, 2018
But as solar power generation spreads throughout Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa, Jinko plans to increase production by about 30% this year to 13.5 million kilowatts with an eye to emerging-market demand. Citing a threat to US producers from rising imports, the Trump administration in JanuaryÃâà...
International Banker
April 3, 2018
Emerging-market (EM) assets enjoyed significant support from investors during 2017. An environment of economic-growth recovery with moderate inflation across developed markets combined with solid commodity prices and abundant liquidity searching for yield—all contributed to remarkable interest fromÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
April 3, 2018
The iShares Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEARCA:EEM) is down 2.5%, as the tech-led selloff spills over to other markets. Most EM currencies are also in the red, with Mexico's peso leading the losses as President Trump threatens to pull out of Nafta. Although the EM equity volatility index is up 13% on theÃâà...
Digital Trends
April 3, 2018
Alphabet, the part company of Google, may be following the lead of Samsung, Apple, and other smartphone manufacturers. According to The Economic Times, the tech giant is rumored to be developing a mid-range Pixel smartphone specifically for emerging markets like India. Alphabet's latest move is aÃâà...
Investment Week
March 21, 2018
Investors will no doubt look back on 2017 as the year which saw Asia knock developed and other emerging markets out of the park, writes Angus Coupland, ... This places Asia in the same asset class as other emerging market countries like Brazil, South Africa and Russia, whose economies can largely beÃâà...
Investment Week
March 21, 2018
Edward Lam, lead manager of the Somerset Emerging Markets Dividend Growth fund, takes a closer look at whether EMs can keep up their impressive run. ... is it is the volume of money driven by global current account and fiscal deficits that drive global trade and emerging market securities performance.
MarketWatch
March 21, 2018
We recently looked at the Emerging Markets Internet & Ecommerce ETF EMQQ, -0.05% which contrasts itself with the largest emerging-markets index funds — the Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund VEIEX, +0.70% the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF VWO, +0.54% and the iSharesÃâà...
Barron's
March 21, 2018
Emerging market debt has been a popular asset class, with the iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMB) gaining 10% in 2017. But so far this year, the ETF is down almost 3% so far this year, and rising rates in the U.S. could make emerging market debt less attractive. As U.S. interestÃâà...
Barron's
March 17, 2018
Another way to trick yourself into buying and holding jumpy emerging market stocks could be an ETF focused on dividends, like the Wisdom Tree Emerging Markets High Dividend fund (DEM) or the SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Dividend ETF (EDIV). While each mixes a different secret sauce, both end upÃâà...
Adweek
March 17, 2018
Facebook introduced its Facebook Lite Android application in June 2015, saying at the time that it was designed for emerging markets and areas with poor connectivity. This week, the app is being rolled out in more developed markets as a lightweight alternative to the social network's flagship Android app.
Financial Advisor Magazine
March 17, 2018
Emerging market economies have been generating interest as investors diversify portfolios for growth value and yield. Emerging markets have enjoyed a supportive economic backdrop, and as emerging economies grow, investors should see that translate in to steady long-term investment returns.
Investorplace.com
March 17, 2018
International investing can make some people a bit skittish. That goes double for investing in emerging markets. These countries don't have the same business rules as Americans. That means there can be some strange methods of reporting, and also political risk in certain regions. That's not to say thatÃâà...
The Economist
March 16, 2018
The problems seem worse in emerging markets. Their data are patchier, covering just 13 crises. Of this unfortunate number, only eight were preceded by a big credit gap. (Another three struck within three years of the start of the data, which may be too early to provide a fair test of the indicator.) There haveÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 16, 2018
Initially, the impact from the latest protectionist measures from the U.S. on emerging markets should be limited, David Hauner, EEMEA cross-asset strategist at BAML said. “However, if they are just the beginning of protectionism, economies could be hurt to a significant degree, in our view,” Hauner wrote.
MarketWatch
March 16, 2018
On their own, dividends and the size factor can reward investors with both developed and emerging markets equities. The combination of dividends and smaller stocks can be particularly potent with emerging markets stocks, but few exchange traded funds combine those concepts under the same umbrella.
MarketWatch
March 16, 2018
The broad emerging-market indexes have performed very well of late, but Carter's strategy has performed even better. EMQQ is passively managed and tracks the performance of Emerging Markets Internet & Ecommerce Index, which Carter helped create and chairs the index committee. The ETF's largestÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
March 16, 2018
Volatility returned to global markets in February, but by and large, emerging markets proved resilient. Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity Chief Investment Officer Manraj Sekhon and Director of Portfolio Management Chetan Sehgal present an overview of emerging market developments inÃâà...
StockNewsTimes
March 11, 2018
Carmichael Hill & Associates Inc. bought a new position in Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fd (NYSEARCA:VWO) in the 4th quarter, ... of the FTSE Emerging Markets All Cap China A Inclusion Index, that measures the return of stocks issued by companies located in emerging market countries.
Institutional Investor
March 10, 2018
Other IPOs in the U.S. this year were done by China's Huami, a maker of wearable exercise-monitoring devices that raised $110 million, and Sol-Gel Technologies, an Israeli dermatology company that issued $75 million of shares. The uptick in emerging market company listings shows confidence in theÃâà...
Morningstar.com
March 10, 2018
Chinese stocks are the current culprits in emerging markets, as they have been consuming a growing share of this universe. In January 2008, Chinese stocks accounted for 14.4% of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. By December 2017 that figure had more than doubled to 29.5%. The performance of theÃâà...
Morningstar.com
March 8, 2018
Stocks listed in emerging markets tend to be riskier than those focused on developed markets, and a number of these risks are prevalent in low-cost index-tracking funds from Vanguard, iShares, and Schwab. Country biases, volatile currency movements, and state-owned enterprises are among the risksÃâà...
Bangkok Post
March 8, 2018
Geoffrey explains that historically, emerging market equities moved in distinct performance cycles lasting for about 5 to 7 years each. ... Despite the recent rally, emerging markets equities remain attractively valued at 1.8x on a price-to-book basis This remains comfortably below that of developed markets.
TheStreet.com
March 8, 2018
"You invest in the emerging markets for growth," said Brian Levitt, senior investment strategist at OppenheimerFunds during TheStreet's Trading Strategies roundtable with host Jim Cramer. "There are a lot ... Examples of emerging market economies include Brazil and India, among others. Be sure to catchÃâà...
Morningstar.com
March 8, 2018
Stocks listed in emerging markets tend to be riskier than those focused on developed markets, and a number of these risks are prevalent in low-cost index-tracking funds from Vanguard, iShares, and Schwab. Country biases, volatile currency movements, and state-owned enterprises are among the risksÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
March 8, 2018
With the return of equity market volatility, historically high values for equities, and rising inflation and interest rates, where should investors invest new money or shift portfolio dollars? As global equity managers we currently find more reasonably priced, high growth companies in developing countries than inÃâà...
StockNewsTimes
March 7, 2018
Edge Advisors LLC raised its stake in shares of Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fd (NYSEARCA:VWO) by 19.1% during the 4th quarter, ... of the FTSE Emerging Markets All Cap China A Inclusion Index, that measures the return of stocks issued by companies located in emerging market countries.
Seeking Alpha
March 7, 2018
The emerging market nations are facing a very unstable situation, due to uncertainties created by central banks, especially by those created by the Federal Reserve. After eight and one-half years of very tranquil monetary policy behavior, creating conditions very conducive to increasing national debt loads,Ãâà...
Asia Asset Management
March 6, 2018
"Emerging market equity trades at a significant discount to developed market peers despite having superior fundamentals," Mr. Secker observes in a recent interview with Asia Asset Management. Emerging market stocks enjoyed strong gains last year. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index and S&P EmergingÃâà...
Japan Today
March 6, 2018
Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli is seeking to lure more sweet-toothed consumers in Japan, China, South Africa, Brazil and Russia, where the group said Tuesday it enjoys "enormous potential". Lindt, a leader in the affordable luxury chocolate segment, said in its annual report that subsidiaries inÃâà...
The Australian Financial Review
March 5, 2018
Time to tilt portfolios more heavily towards emerging markets ... The outcome of our most recent review is to reduce the exposure to Australian equities in favour of emerging market equities. ... For a "balanced" portfolio it means the weight to emerging markets will move from 2 per cent to 6.25 per cent.
Valley News
March 4, 2018
There are high-stakes elections on the calendar this year beyond the midterm elections for the United States, including several across emerging markets, stretching from South America to Asia. Regardless of how the results pan out, emerging-market stock and bond funds may swing widely in the interimÃâà...
Nasdaq
March 3, 2018
In recent years, some yield-starved investors embraced emerging markets debt as a way of increasing income, sending the popularity of exchange traded funds such as the iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF ( EMB ) soaring. EMB tracks the J.P. Morgan EMBI Global Core Index,Ãâà...
Hargreaves Lansdown
March 3, 2018
This fund combines exposure to the long-term growth potential of emerging markets, with the attraction of a regular income. Sophia Whitbread, the fund's lead manager, has been involved in running the fund since its launch in 2012 and has the support of a broader team of portfolio managers and analystsÃâà...
The New Times
March 3, 2018
New york – Foreign investors withdrew nearly $6 billion from emerging market equities in February, the most for any month since August 2015, helping cap a 14-month streak of inflows, according to the Institute of International Finance. The sharp outflow in equities was the main reason for emergingÃâà...
Benzinga
March 2, 2018
As sovereign debt yields in developed markets plummeted and, in some cases, turned negative, income investors turned to emerging market debt for higher yields. Plenty of emerging markets bond exchange traded funds are listed in the U.S., but the iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETFÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 2, 2018
City fund giant Schroders is tilting its focus towards the rising number of tycoons in emerging markets such as Colombia after key emerging economies contributed to its bumper year. The FTSE 100 fund manager, which has been in the Square Mile since 1804, said its pre-tax profits rose 23pc to Ãâã760m lastÃâà...
ABC News
March 2, 2018
There are high-stakes elections on the calendar this year beyond the midterm elections for the United States, including several across emerging markets, stretching from South America to Asia. Regardless of how the results pan out, emerging-market stock and bond funds may swing widely in the interimÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
December 31, 1999
Investors in this second group may also see the present moment as an opportune time to upgrade positions in their emerging market equity allocations. Compared to the S&P 500, EM equities trade at a lower multiple, are experiencing faster earnings growth and are poised to benefit from strong globalÃâà...
