3 Segments, Multiple Opportunities In Emerging Markets

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Summary

  • Emerging markets offer attractive alternatives to fixed income investors searching for yield amid the trillions of dollars of negative-, zero-, and low-yielding debt globally.
  • Within emerging market hard currency investment grade bonds, we think it is prudent to be shorter duration or at least hedge the Treasury risk component, given the low yield per unit of duration today.
  • Emerging markets could see a tremendous recovery in growth as economies reopen.

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By Michael Arno, CFA

Emerging markets offer attractive alternatives to fixed income investors searching for yield amid the trillions of dollars of negative-, zero-, and low-yielding debt globally. However, this asset class is far from homogenous, making it

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