Time to retire the emerging markets brand

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Second, there should be a shift from a broad-tent index that includes the equivalent of jewels and junk in favour of a suite of customisable thematic investment baskets. Investors need better ways to distinguish between the myriad themes on offer within EM.

Since 1980, the only EM economies to converge by more than 1 percentage point relative to America’s income level are China (53 percentage points), India (7 points), Korea (4 points), Indonesia (2 points) and Singapore (2 points).

Rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater, the simplest way to “reform” the EM indices would be to demand index products that partially insure against the dollar.

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Author / Journalist: Gene Frieda

Category: MarketsFinanceInvesting

Markets: United StatesArgentinaChinaColombiaEgyptIndiaIndonesiaKenyaNigerNigeriaQatarSingaporeTurkeyUkraineVenezuela

Topics: Index Various Emerging Financial China Indices Benchmark Economic Cent Global Country

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Published On: 2024-09-16 @ 23:01:10 (10 hours ago)

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