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Investing in emerging markets

  • Explain the role of emerging markets in a portfolio
  • Identify the opportunities brought by emerging market equities
  • Explain the impact of domestic and geopolitics on emerging markets
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Investing in emerging markets
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Developed markets may have certainly experienced their fair share of rising rates and inflation over the past few years, but emerging markets still tend to be more susceptible to economic risks, such as high inflation, interest rate fluctuations, and debt defaults.

Despite this, several emerging markets have experienced rapid growth in recent decades. 

Investing in emerging markets offers the opportunity to diversify away from more developed markets, and while historically they have been a source of capital growth, some emerging markets funds also offer income with the proportion of emerging market companies paying dividends growing significantly since the turn of the century. 

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Emerging markets are also becoming key to technological developments. Asia is home to some of the world’s great technological innovators. India is also set to be a dominant force, with a population that has surpassed that of China. 

This report, which is worth 30 minutes of CPD, will explore how to approach emerging markets investing, how they fit into a portfolio and the impact of domestic and geopolitics.

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Approx.30min

Please answer the six multiple choice questions below in order to bank your CPD. Multiple attempts are available until all questions are correctly answered.

  1. Why is it impossible to ignore the influence of the upcoming US elections on emerging markets?

  2. What feature in emerging markets makes them useful as part of a broader global investment portfolio?

  3. Why does James Flintoft say that emerging market equities provide access to a source of long-term structural economic growth?

  4. What is one of the benefits of using active managers within emerging markets investing?

  5. Why does James Klempster say that a risk premium should be demanded by those who invest in emerging markets?

  6. Why is it useful to be aware of the domestic politics of a country?

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  • Explain the role of emerging markets in a portfolio
  • Identify the opportunities brought by emerging market equities
  • Explain the impact of domestic and geopolitics on emerging markets

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