Why emerging markets are an attractive opportunity

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are the backbone of economic development in emerging markets like India, South Africa, Kenya and Colombia, where these enterprises contribute up to 40% of national GDP. Recent years have seen the SME sector in

Nearly half of emerging market investors are bullish on prospects for developing markets in the second quarter, a survey by HSBC showed on Thursday, thanks to rising optimism following the reopening of the Chinese economy. Some two thirds

Companies in emerging markets are under mounting pressure from investors, employees, customers, and other stakeholders to become green. But most significantly underperform companies in developed markets on influential ESG rankings by various agencies, especially when it comes to

Emerging markets (EM) are in a state of transition this year as they work through the structural shocks left by the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It’s been a strong start so far thanks to China’s

As a result of India’s investment-led growth trajectory, several experts have produced an upbeat appraisal of the economy, resulting in the rapid rise of a USD 5 trillion GDP. The impressive performance of the Indian equity market isn’t

Investors are increasingly looking for good opportunities to back tech innovators, consumer goods providers, real estate firms and other companies based in emerging markets. Many are eyeing China, Brazil and India – but there are compelling reasons why

Emerging market stocks have fallen far behind their global developed counterparts in the past few years. But growth investor Baillie Gifford believes the asset class remains appealing as rising innovations, attractively priced stocks, and favorable macroeconomic conditions bubble up in

To start 2023, the emerging markets story commanding the most attention is China. That makes sense because that is the largest developing economy, and stocks there are rebounding after the country shed its coronavirus restrictions. However, investors shouldn’t

Many emerging markets are bucking an historic trend. Rather than staggering to the brink of financial instability as economic growth in the US and Europe slows, some look reasonably resilient thanks to China’s reopening economy, a weakening US

Emerging market and Europe-focused equity exchange traded funds both enjoyed their highest monthly net inflows for a year in January even as US equity ETFs suffered their first outflow since April 2022. The flows, recorded in data from

Entering 2023, there were expectations that this could finally be the year that emerging markets equities give investors something to cheer about following a lengthy run of laggard status. While the year is still in its early innings,