All Emerging Market articles
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White papersIndia’s great transformation continues
India’s economy and financial markets continue to evolve. Government incentives and strategic investment are expanding domestic manufacturing, while rising incomes are shifting spending “from essentials to extras” and “from basic to premium”. Meanwhile, easier access for foreign investors and growing domestic participation are supporting the development of India’s financial markets.
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White papersLatin America rising as a diversifier
“In a market shaped by AI, energy price uncertainty and re-routing, Latin American equities can offer diversification supported by attractive valuations and improving policy dynamics”
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White papersHome is not a guaranteed hedge
Having spent more than two decades in asset management and private wealth, I have watched investors become more nuanced in the way they think about risk. What once appeared prudent can start to look less safe when the world changes around it. Today, that is increasingly true of portfolios that remain concentrated close to home.
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White papersRethinking emerging markets: diversification and growth opportunities in equities and fixed income
Growing global uncertainty around company valuations, monetary policy and business cycles is prompting investors to rethink their asset-allocation strategies – and emerging markets (EM) are ideally placed to benefit. Across EM, a number of factors are combining to create compelling diversification opportunities in both equities and fixed income.
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White papersEmerging Markets, Reframed
Within a few years, the United States could be spending as much of its budget servicing debt as a median high-yield emerging market country. It is a stunning role reversal — and a useful starting point for rethinking the case for emerging markets.
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PodcastFocus on the broader EM opportunity – not just the tech titans
Emerging market equities have staged a powerful comeback, led by AI-related companies in Korea and Taiwan. However, the bigger long-term EM opportunity favors a systematic, broad-universe approach.
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White papersBeyond Developed and Emerging
Country classifications are often presented as labels attached to markets. In practice, they are de facto allocation decisions. They determine which countries enter a mandate, where risk is reported and how capital is allocated amongst developed and emerging markets.
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White papersIndex investing has flaws. Institutional investors can do better.
Imagine receiving this pitch: “I have an investment strategy for you. It aims to provide a rough representation of the market. It is mostly rules-based, with some exceptions. We have no say in what we buy or sell. We outsource these decisions to another entity. They will tell everyone what ...
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White papersTechnology outlook: Balancing rapid growth with long-term valuations
Technological innovations are disrupting virtually every part of the global economy – from consumption, financial transactions, manufacturing, energy and more.
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White papersEmerging Markets Have Changed. Should Allocations Follow?
For years, global debt and equity investors have been voting against emerging markets (EM) through their allocation decisions. But today’s EM opportunity set looks very different from the one investors have been avoiding, backed by stronger fundamentals and diverse drivers of return potential.
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White papersEmerging markets: One index, different destinies
For three decades, allocators have bought emerging markets on a narrative: faster growth, better demographics, and deeper integration into world trade. It was a convenient story, and it built a large asset class. However, treating EM as a monolith disguises the complexity inherent in investing in such a diverse universe and, in our view, limits your performance potential.
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PodcastEM Debt: Still Undervalued?
Head of Global Sovereign Debt & Currencies, Cem Karacadag shares insight into the broad EM Debt universe and explains why spreads may be overcompensating for default risk.
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White papersRe-Rating Korea: A Structural Case
Korean equities have rallied strongly since 2025, driven by AI and advanced technology demand that has lifted earnings expectations, particularly for semiconductor leaders. Beyond tech, improving governance, shareholder-friendly reforms, and broader opportunities support the investment case.
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WebinarWebinar: Opportunities in global equities
As market leadership broadens beyond the US, portfolio managers Lisa Thompson and Diana Wagner discuss investment opportunities emerging across global equities.
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VideoWebinar Replay: Asset Allocation Outlook 3Q 2026
With real rates driving markets and AI’s investment reach expanding into power, industrials, and real assets, where are the best opportunities across equities, fixed income, and alternatives?
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Asset Manager NewsActis welcomes new investors IFC and Proparco to support Uluğ Enerji’s long-term growth in Türkiye
Actis, a leading growth market investor in sustainable infrastructure, today announced it was welcoming the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Société De Promotion et de Participation Pour la Coopération Economique (Proparco) as minority investors in Uluğ Enerji…
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PodcastGlobal equities: Earnings expectations remain strong
Equities in the US, Europe, Japan and emerging markets should see strong second quarter earnings growth. As Nadia Grant, Head of Global Equities, tells Chief Market Strategist, Daniel Morris, year-to-date equity returns have been highly concentrated, notably AI-linked hardware stocks ‘at the expense of everything else, particularly software’.
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White papersA unique market moment and the case for active judgement
We are living through an extraordinary market environment. The level of concentration in many equity benchmarks has increased significantly.
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White papersA record quarter for equities
“Diversification* is paramount as investors start to move away from overcrowded areas, taking profits and making room for new IPOs.”
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White papersChina: Late to the AI sprint, strong in the marathon
In today’s global artificial intelligence (AI) industry, the US leads in frontier models and accelerator design, Taiwan manufactures the most advanced chips, South Korea supplies high-bandwidth memory, and investors crowd into the most obvious winners. China — constrained by export controls and short of leading-edge semiconductors — is often seen as the laggard. That narrative is too simple. It may also be wrong.
