Emerging Market Debt – Page 9
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Emerging Market Debt: Why liquidity matters
Lorenzo Naranjo offers a case study of the Chilean corporate bond market to show how difficult pricing can be in illiquid markets, and tenders a solution
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Emerging Market Debt: Blurring the lines
Many emerging market credits look better than most in the developed world. But Joseph Mariathasan finds that progress towards approaching global sovereign debt as a single asset class has been slow
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Emerging Market Debt: The real issue
Do negative real rates in inflating economies make a case for taking emerging currency exposure without the bond duration? Joseph Mariathasan finds a complex picture
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Emerging Market Debt: Sorting though the ‘stuff’
In an asset class dominated by top-down commentary, Martin Steward finds bottom-up alpha defining performance
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Emerging Market Debt: Beyond Brazil
Martin Steward talks with Jorge Unda of BBVA Asset Management, who warns that Latin America’s biggest economy is heading in the wrong direction if it wants to keep up with its more successful neighbours
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Emerging Market Debt: Ugly duckling no more
Emerging market debt is a fast-maturing asset class that is converging with the global bond universe. But Joseph Mariathasan finds managers struggling to break out of top-down country-risk constraints
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Emerging Market Debt: Perfect timing?
Peter Marber re-explores averaging strategies for entry into emerging markets
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Debt: Going multi-asset
First it was equity, then bonds – and most recently investors have been exploring emerging market currencies. Martin Steward asks if it pays to bring the three together
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Debt: Localising, globalising
Joseph Mariathasan finds that fast developing emerging debt markets present opportunities for risk-taking and challenges for benchmarking and performance measurement
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Emerging Market Debt: What role do indices play?
The key sub-components of the emerging market debt (EMD) are the original hard currency sovereign debt, followed now by local currency sovereign debt and, increasingly, hard currency corporate debt. At some stage local currency corporate debt may also come to have significant size. There are two questions that need to ...
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Emerging Market Debt: Local currency bonds
Emerging market debt (EMD) originated as a hard currency debt market but today it is the local currency issuance that dominates the sovereign debt marketplace, while hard currency issuance in 2007-08 was 70% corporate.
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Emerging market debt: Emerging market debt goes local
Building out term structures, liquidity and diversity in emerging market debt will improve the efficiency of both emerging economies and investors portfolios, write Peter Botoucharov and Edouard Stirling
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging market debt – A reconfiguring world
High credit spreads and strong currency performance are just two reasons why emerging debt markets are set to eclipse the performance of G7 countries in the coming year, writes Peter Marber
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Emerging Market Debt: Portfolio focus: Fringe benefits
As an asset class, emerging market debt (EMD) is generating a real buzz among asset managers and investors. It may take some time, but pension fund allocations are expected to rise, given the mismatch between current allocations to the emerging markets and their increasing economic importance. Insight Investment head of EMD, Colm McDonagh, says: “Less than 1% of global pension fund assets are in emerging markets; it should be significantly higher. Within 10 years, emerging market countries will have 50% of global GDP.”
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EM debt comes of age through crisis
No one would envy the job that developed market pension fund managers face over the next few years. After the huge destruction in wealth brought about by last year’s credit crisis, they have a lot of catching up to do.
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Asset Class ReportsSanctuary in the crisis
Emerging market debt has had a good crisis and is now firmly established in the mainstream. But, as Joseph Mariathasan finds, the complex matrix of exposures it represents raises the question of whether it is one asset class or many, and demands a properly considered allocation process
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Features
Politics holds Russian key
Although many investors are quite enthusiastic about emerging markets and emerging market bonds, Russia might not be especially high on the list of desirable destinations for investor money. The default crisis of 1998 left many investors stranded and nursing huge losses and is still clear in the memory of many ...
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Growth at risk
New highs for oil prices, the latest report on the (non-) existence of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, hurricanes, terrorist bombs, and G7 meetings, and the usual slew of economic data that keeps on coming – all in all just another average couple of weeks for world watchers. Capital ...
