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  • Do Emerging Market ETFs Really Help You Diversify? [View article]
    I get a correlation of 0.75 between EEM (emerging markets) and IVV (S&P500) over the past three years using monthly total return data. This is not a low correlation. I find it a bit odd that so many people are talking about how decoupling was wrong only now--after we have seen some major declines in emerging markets. The evidence for strongly coupled returns between foreign markets and the S&P500 has been around for a long time. See for example this article from Jan 06:

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