GOING DOMESTIC By Vanessa Drucker Global Finance sat down with Conrad Saldanha, portfolio manager, emerging markets equities, at asset management firm Neuberger Berman, to discuss the future prospects
for global emerging markets.
Not exact matches
Global stocks have been a hot trade
for investors with the iShares MSCI
emerging markets ETF (EEM) surging more than 15 percent in the past year, outperforming the S&P 500, which is up just 10 percent in that time.
Higher U.S. yields can put pressure on the currencies of
emerging market countries that run current account deficits such as Indonesia and India, said Satoshi Okagawa, senior
global markets analyst
for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Singapore.
An increased appetite
for emerging markets has grown in recent months, with
global investors moving on following excitement over U.S and then European equities.
Committed to economic empowerment of women in
emerging markets, Le Ray was instrumental in Naseba becoming a signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles — Equality Means Business, produced and disseminated by the United Nations Entity
for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the United Nations
Global Compact.
Other analysis also reports that
emerging markets now account
for over 40 percent of
global GDP.
But
for the last few days,
global markets have been in a rout, based on economic weakness in
emerging markets.
India has become an
emerging market for global investors and entrepreneurship is majorly contributing to the country's economy
Yeske,
for one, has been selling large - cap and small - cap U.S. stocks and buying
global real estate,
emerging -
market stocks and even bonds over the last six months.
If you've been sitting on the sidelines of
emerging markets and are ready to get back in, Jurrien Timmer, director of
global macro
for Fidelity Investments in Boston, recommends buying particular stocks and geographically targeted funds rather than a broad index or exchange - traded fund spanning the entire developing world.
«Merck's reduced commercial
global footprint not only lowers competition
for Valeant but also probably creates product licensing opportunities, particularly in
emerging markets where Valeant has infrastructure,» he wrote in an October 2 report.
The TriLinc
Global Impact Fund looks
for established social enterprises in stable
emerging markets that are ripe
for growth capital.
There are myriad services, many of them free, specifically tailored to deepen Canadian companies» presence in
emerging markets — something Todd Winterhalt, vice-president and managing director of
global trade
for Export Development Canada (EDC), feels is important in order to change the fact that 70 % of Canadian exporters sell primarily to the U.S. «Diversification of trade is a good thing,» he says.
The usual proxies
for global growth — oil and other commodities,
emerging market currencies, energy and mining stocks — are almost all sharply lower as investors bail out of any kind of trade predicated on growth in China and the rest of the
emerging world, which accounts
for 85 % of the world's population.
Emerging markets also account
for over 50 % of world GDP, and have been responsible
for the lion's share of
global growth ever since the 2008 financial crisis, but capital has flooded out of them as the Federal Reserve has tightened its monetary policy and the limits of China's economic model have become apparent.
For emerging -
market companies, the benefits of buying into the West are many, says Andreas Schotter, a professor of
global strategy at the Ivey Business School.
We see the move as related to
global emerging markets, where the MSCI EM index is down
for the third day in a row and the largest EM ETF saw $ 320 million of outflows yesterday following $ 550 million the previous day, said Mohamad Al Hajj, head of MENA equity strategy at EFG - Hermes.
It might be challenging
for the
global PMI to cross above the three - year moving average since Chinese manufacturing has slowed, but there's burgeoning strength in other
emerging markets, many of them unexpected: the Philippines, Myanmar, Ethiopia.
Ongoing structural reforms in
emerging markets generally, and specifically in China, appear to be making good progress, which we see as a big plus
for global growth.
The research found that new digital innovations in banking could bring significant cost reductions
for global banks, alongside increased customer satisfaction and financial inclusion
for unbanked populations in
emerging markets.
While domestic policy frameworks
emerge as low - carbon / green - economy initiatives take shape,
global markets for clean technology goods (excluding services) nearly doubled in eight years from C$ 550B in 2005 to C$ 970B in 2013.
«
For the first time since 2010, developed
markets and
emerging markets are recovering in sync,» says Elga Bartsch, Co-Head of
Global Economics.
U.S.
Global investors is well known
for expertise in gold and precious metals, natural resources, and
emerging markets.
The underlying determinants
for these declines are related to the
global supply and demand
for funds, including shifting demographics, slower trend productivity and economic growth,
emerging markets seeking large reserves of safe assets, and a more general
global savings glut (Council of Economic Advisers 2015, International Monetary Fund 2014, Rachel and Smith 2015, Caballero, Farhi, and Gourinchas 2016).
For example, Alibaba and Tencent — both on the forefront of the e-commerce wave in China — have risen by 98 % and 111 %, respectively, so far in 2017.2 Companies such as Sina, a
global Internet media company, and Baidu, which operates an Internet search engine, have also generated returns this year that are nearly as strong or stronger than those of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, or Google.3 As the world's second - largest economy, China is rapidly evolving from its former status as a noteworthy
emerging market to an economic powerhouse on the rise.
iShares S&P ® / TSX ® 60 Index Fund («XIU»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Composite Index Fund («XIC»), iShares S&P / TSX Completion Index Fund («XMD»), iShares S&P / TSX SmallCap Index Fund («XCS»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Energy Index Fund («XEG»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Financials Index Fund («XFN»), iShares S&P / TSX
Global Gold Index Fund («XGD»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Information Technology Index Fund («XIT»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped REIT Index Fund («XRE»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Materials Index Fund («XMA»), iShares Diversified Monthly Income Fund («XTR»), iShares S&P 500 Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XSP»), iShares Jantzi Social Index Fund («XEN»), iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund («XDV»), iShares Dow Jones Canada Select Growth Index Fund («XCG»), iShares Dow Jones Canada Select Value Index Fund («XCV»), iShares DEX Universe Bond Index Fund («XBB»), iShares DEX Short Term Bond Index Fund («XSB»), iShares DEX Real Return Bond Index Fund («XRB»), iShares DEX Long Term Bond Index Fund («XLB»), iShares DEX All Government Bond Index Fund («XGB»), and iShares DEX All Corporate Bond Index Fund («XCB»), iShares MSCI EAFE ® Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XIN»), iShares Russell 2000 ® Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XSU»), iShares Conservative Core Portfolio Builder Fund («XCR»), iShares Growth Core Portfolio Builder Fund («XGR»), iShares
Global Completion Portfolio Builder Fund («XGC»), iShares Alternatives Completion Portfolio Builder Fund («XAL»), iShares MSCI
Emerging Markets Index Fund («XEM») and iShares MSCI World Index Fund («XWD»), iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund («XBZ»), iShares China Index Fund («XCH»), iShares S&P CNX Nifty India Index Fund («XID»), iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index Fund («XLA»), iShares U.S. High Yield Bond Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XHY»), iShares U.S. IG Corporate Bond Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XIG»), iShares DEX HYBrid Bond Index Fund («XHB»), iShares S&P / TSX North American Preferred Stock Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XPF»), iShares S&P / TSX Equity Income Index Fund («XEI»), iShares S&P / TSX Capped Consumer Staples Index Fund («XST»), iShares Capped Utilities Index Fund («XUT»), iShares S&P / TSX
Global Base Metals Index Fund («XBM»), iShares S&P
Global Healthcare Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XHC»), iShares NASDAQ 100 Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XQQ») and iShares J.P. Morgan USD
Emerging Markets Bond Index Fund (CAD - Hedged)(«XEB»)(collectively, the «Funds») may or may not be suitable
for all investors.
Morgan Stanley analysts Wednesday issued a forecast
for global miles driven rising to 32 trillion by 2030, up from 11 trillion currently, with
emerging markets a big driver of the growth.
«Investors are sending a clear message that they are positioned
for lower growth in China and
emerging markets,» said Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at BofA Merrill Lynch
Global Research.
As CNBC notes, Roubini predicted in May that four elements — stalling growth in the U.S., debt troubles in Europe, a slowdown in
emerging markets, particularly China, and military conflict in Iran — would come together in to create a storm
for the
global economy in 2013.
Emerging markets have revealed a new and critical challenge
for global payments.
Emerging economies account
for a larger share of
global GDP, corporate revenues, and profits than is reflected in the
market capitalization of
global equity
markets.
Indeed, investors have cause to celebrate, as
global stocks are up over 20 %
for the year, with
emerging market stocks leading the way.
Singapore is currently Franklin Templeton's
global centre
for emerging markets investment management and the company's regional business hub
for Asia.
For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian
markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these
markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in
emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the
global market.
A popular theme
for global macro managers in 2014 might be summed up by the headline «Developed
Markets Rumble,
Emerging Markets Tumble.»
If anything should be clear from the bubbles of recent years, the greatest risks are not when prices are depressed, the economy is weak, and investors are frightened, but rather when prices are elevated and an unendingly positive outlook
for technology, or housing, or
global growth, or private equity, or
emerging markets, or commodities seems all but certain.
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emerging market sovereigns around the globe.
By working with a greater number of exchanges across different countries to list XRP, we can better serve the growing demand
for global payments in both major currency corridors and
emerging markets.
Lastly,
for managers pursuing strategies in the
global macro space, in our view,
emerging markets continue to present a favorable environment.
In the third quarter (Q3) of 2016, K2 Advisors» Research and Portfolio Construction teams continue to have high conviction
for long short equity and merger arbitrage strategies, and within the
global macro strategy, the teams have elevated
emerging markets into their top three convictions.
As Virginia has
emerged as a top
global market for data centers, tax breaks to attract some of the world's richest companies to the state have exploded, new records show.
As both Louis Lau, San Diego — based EM portfolio coordinator and director of the Investments Group at Brandes Investment Partners, and Jay Jacobs, vice president and director of research at
Global X Management, a New York — based provider of
emerging - market and frontier - market exchange - traded funds, point out, inclusion in the influential MSCI Emerging Markets Index is a prerequisite for most such in
emerging -
market and frontier -
market exchange - traded funds, point out, inclusion in the influential MSCI
Emerging Markets Index is a prerequisite for most such in
Emerging Markets Index is a prerequisite
for most such investors.
The bottom line: Investors are being offered better returns
for taking risk in the low - return landscape, and a portfolio allocation to a broader, diversified mix of assets — including alternatives,
global equities and
emerging market (EM) assets — can potentially help improve returns, in our view.
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Increasing uncertainty about growth prospects
for China and other
emerging -
market economies, in contrast, is raising questions about the pace of the
global recovery.
Global investing can provide more portfolio diversification and has the potential
for investment opportunities in
emerging markets around the world.
Bond fund manager who called dollar's slide says «it's not too late to move out of U.S. bonds» Jack McIntyre of Brandywine
Global says look to
emerging markets for attractive yields on sovereign bondsJack McIntyre of Brandywine
Global says
emerging markets are still the place to look
for attractive yields on sovereign bonds.
Healthy demand growth
for fuel not only in
emerging economies led by China and India, but also in Europe, is helping
global inventories to draw down faster now, keeping the oil
market on the right track towards rebalancing, according to industry executives who spoke at a conference on Tuesday.
According to the 2016 Deloitte Millennial Survey,
emerging markets (EM) millennials are more likely to say that «starting their own business» is a sign of success than Millennials in developed nations.1 Further, according to the 2016
Global Entrepreneur Report, the overall age pattern
for entrepreneurship worldwide shows the highest participation rates among the 25 — 34 and 35 — 44 year olds.2
Markets were also affected by the IMF's bleak forecast
for the
global economy that identified other weak spots, including Japan, China and major
emerging market economies (EMEs).