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Not All Emerging Markets Are Created Equal: Dissecting a Standout Performer
While emerging market equities have not been a favorite asset class over the past few years, some emerging market strategies have performed better than others. The WisdomTree Emerging Markets Dividend...
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The Emerging Markets 50/50: Yields & Volatility
The emerging markets (EM) represent great valuation opportunities and some of the highest income levels, but they also represent significant volatility. One strategy that may help investors capture...
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Federal Reserve Tapering Part I: Emerging Market Currency Performance
On December 18, 2013, the Federal Reserve (Fed) announced that it would begin to reduce the pace of its asset purchase program through a series of gradual steps referred to as “tapering“. When this...
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Federal Reserve Tapering Part II: Emerging Market Local Debt Performance
In part two of our discussion, we focus on the impact of recent changes in Federal Reserve (Fed) policy on locally-denominated fixed income across emerging markets (EM).1 As we noted in part one,...
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Emerging Market Equities Recovering in 2014
In 2013, equity markets in Europe, Japan and the United States delivered strongly.1 Emerging markets EM, on the other hand, were disappointing.2 However, it is at precisely these times—after being...
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Norilsk Nickel as a “Grower” &“Yielder”
So far, 2014 has not been a good year for Russia’s equity markets.1 While the valuation case can certainly be made, geopolitical risk is high, and it’s not easy to transition from looking at the...
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EM Consumer Growth: Cheaper Valuations and Higher Quality
The emerging market (EM) consumer has shown resilience despite the highly uncertain economic times in the region. It comes as no surprise that the WisdomTree Emerging Markets Consumer Growth Index...
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India: A Bright Spot in Emerging Markets
In 2013, emerging markets1 were the laggards of the global equity markets2. 2014 has seen some bright spots, but various uncertainties, most notably with respect to Russia, have tended to constrain...
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Playing Defense in Emerging Market Fixed Income
When looking around the global fixed income landscape, investors searching for income potential have essentially two choices: non-investment grade debt or emerging markets (EM). While high yield flows...
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How Can Investors Capitalize on the Growth of the Emerging Market Consumer?
Over the past few years, investors have become frustrated with the underperformance of the emerging markets (EM) —especially when compared to U.S. markets. But if we look at another comparison to the...
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What Did Our Annual Index Rebalance Uncover? Value Opportunity in Emerging...
At WisdomTree, a critical way for us to identify valuation opportunities is through our annual Index rebalancing. Our process is designed to evaluate the underlying fundamentals of Index constituents...
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Emerging Markets and State-Owned Enterprises
When investors allocate to emerging markets, they typically do so through broad-based market cap-weighted exposure. More recently, investors have shown interest in specific cuts or subsets of the...
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WisdomTree Creates an Emerging Markets ex-State-Owned Enterprises Index
In a previous blog post we discussed the characteristics of emerging market state-owned enterprises and the growing interest that some investors have expressed in avoiding or limiting their exposures....
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When investing in emerging markets, investors always accept a degree of geopolitical risk. But in certain countries and regions, like China, Russia and Brazil, this risk may be even more pronounced....
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Where to Focus in Emerging Markets with the Oil Price Collapse
With oil prices down over 39% since the highs of June this year, many investors have been caught off-guard.1 It is important for investors to consider how their portfolios are being impacted by lower...
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Most Great Investments Begin in Discomfort: Is Russia Turning a Corner?
I recently attended the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute’s annual forecast dinner in Denver, where the keynote, from a major asset manager, reviewed equity valuations across the world. He...
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How to Manage One of India’s Most Important Risks
India’s equity market performance has been remarkable over the past year—20.7%1. Emerging markets were basically flat over this period, and U.S. equities were up about 12.7%2. In short, India was one...
View ArticleEmerging Markets of Tomorrow
This week Professor Siegel and I chatted with Gavin Serkin, Emerging Markets (EM) Editor at Bloomberg News. Gavin recently wrote a book called Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of...
View ArticleAnalysts Love to Talk about China but Should Focus on South Korea
On Friday, April 23, I had an interesting conversation with Jeff Weniger, Investment Strategist at BMO Global Asset Management. We spoke at length about the impact of the U.S. dollar on global markets....
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There May Be Value in the Emerging Markets—If You Know Where to Look
Over the past few years, it’s been somewhat unheard-of for the MSCI Emerging Markets Index to start a year outperforming the S&P 500 Index. But so far in 2015, that’s exactly what’s happening. The...
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