Investing in emerging-market equities
May 2010
Since stock markets around the world reached their trough levels in March 2009, emerging-market equities have recovered particularly strongly. In sterling terms, emerging markets, in aggregate, returned between their March 2009 low and 30 April 2010, +102.2%, while the world index as a whole delivered a return of 'just' +64.8% to the UK-based investor.
In this article we look at the case for investment in emerging markets and the means by which investors might gain exposure to the favourable trends in those markets.
The strong performance of emergingmarket equities since March 2009 means that those equities are not as attractively valued collectively as they had been previously.
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Investing in emerging-market equities
