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Finding Opportunities in Emerging Markets: The Case for Investing in Emerging Markets: This paper argues the case for emerging markets as a dedicated asset class for long-term investors. Profound structural changes have taken place over the last 15 years that have made emerging markets a vital contributor to the world economy. Emerging markets have evolved to the point where there are excellent...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, emerging market, asset class, asset, private equity, equity; White papers 2004-04-26
Value Investing In Emerging Markets: Risks And Benefits: This paper identifies a subset of emerging markets that have higher than average expected returns and studies risk properties of this subset by investment simulations. It is found that: (1) the portfolio of ‘value’ emerging markets generates superior returns; and (2) statistical measures of its risk are close to the...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, Reed Elsevier Inc., emerging market, benefit; White papers 2002-05-21
Where There`s Risk, There`s Opportunity: Revisiting Emerging Markets: Investing in emerging markets doesn't mean that you have lost faith in the U.S. market. The U.S. market could go on from here to an even new high, baffling the experts much as it has done for the last several years. But diversification into emerging markets, though it hasn't proved...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, emerging market; White papers 1999-03-01
Insurance Companies in Emerging Markets: This paper focuses on asset allocation decisions of life insurance companies in emerging markets. Mature market insurers allocate only a small fraction of their assets to emerging markets because of regulatory constraints, rating pressures, and currency risk. However, global insurers invest directly in emerging markets by setting up subsidiaries rather...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, Asset management, Financial Planning, IMF, emerging market, insurance company, asset allocation, life insurance, asset, insurance; White papers 2005-05-01
Private Equity Investing in Emerging Markets: By the mid-1990s, a broad global consensus had emerged that the private sector, rather than the state, should be the primary catalyst for new investment and development, and many emerging economies were demonstrating encouraging progress. Investors were attracted by the severe capital shortages in many emerging markets. However, this article...; Tags: Financial services, Marketing research, Investment, John Hopkins University, emerging market, private equity, venture capital; White papers 2003-04-29

Emerging Markets Aren't as Risky as You Think: Are Emerging Markets Riskier Than Developed Ones? Not if You Take a Portfolio Perspective on Corporate Investments: Emerging markets have a reputation for volatility that leads many companies to overestimate the risk, causing them to reject good investment opportunities and to underestimate the performance of existing businesses. While individual markets can be highly volatile, research shows that a diversified portfolio of investments in them can have risk...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, McKinsey & Co., emerging market, investment, risk, volatility, performance; White papers
External Shocks, U.S. Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Emerging Markets: This paper uses a structural VAR model to quantify the extent of international dependence of several emerging markets. A sizable fraction of macroeconomic fluctuations in emerging markets is attributable to external shocks (in many cases more than 50%). This further decomposition reveals that only a modest portion of the variation...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, emerging market, fluctuation, inflation; White papers 2003-02-01
Valuation in Emerging Markets: This article gives an overview of research and practice issues in the valuation of assets in emerging markets. It introduces a special edition in Emerging Markets Review devoted to the topic. This volume emerged from a conference sponsored by The Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate Business School of University...; Tags: Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., valuation, emerging market, asset; White papers 2003-01-01
Investing in Emerging, Frontier and Obscure Markets: Emerging markets have had their moment in the spotlight for some time now and have provided a welcome alternative to the more established and developed markets of the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan. by Arnbjorn Ingimundarson; Tags: Emerging Market; External links 2008-06-24
Mutual Fund Investment in Emerging Markets: An Overview: International mutual funds are key contributors to the globalization of financial markets and one of the main sources of capital flows to emerging economies. This article provides an overview of mutual fund activity in emerging markets. It describes their size, asset allocation, and country allocation and then focuses on their...; Tags: Mutual funds, Retirement plans, Investment, Marketing research, Financial services, Asset management, World Bank Group, mutual fund, emerging market, asset allocation, globalization, financial market, allocation, financial, asset; White papers 2001-09-14
The New Emerging Markets: The opportunity to invest in emerging markets is ripe. Low valuations, an improving fundamental backdrop, positive leading economic indicators and more mature, structurally improved economies set the stage for high prospective returns. As the economy recovers and interest rates are expected to rise, an increased allocation to emerging markets has...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, General Electric Co., emerging market, allocation, valuation, interest rate; White papers 2002-06-01
Emerging Markets Finance: Emerging markets have long posed a challenge for finance. Standard models are often ill suited to deal with the specific circumstances arising in these markets. However, the interest in emerging markets has provided impetus for the adaptation of current models to new circumstances and the development of new models. The...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, Free trade, Reed Elsevier Inc., emerging market, liberalization, integration, finance, volatility, stock, performance, financial; White papers 2002-01-01
Could iShares MCSI Emerging Markets Fund Beat the Bear?: Contrarian Profits submits: A couple of years ago, emerging markets nations in Latin America and Asia could do no wrong. That’s all changed. However, there may still be a great way to play emerging markets with a stellar ETF performer, says Jim Stanton in The Smart Profits Report. ...; Tags: Emerging Market, ETF; External links 2008-07-02
Time-Varying Market Integration and Expected Returns in Emerging Markets: This paper uses a simple model in which the expected returns in emerging markets depend on their systematic risk as measured by their beta relative to the world portfolio as well as on the level of integration in that market. The empirical analysis for 30 emerging markets shows that there...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, segmentation, emerging market, integration, analysis; White papers 2001-10-09
When Worlds Collide: Culture Clash - Forging New Territory: People Challenges of Emerging Markets: Recent economic conditions have led some companies to look to buy, and emerging markets have been a popular target. This article outlines the challenges and opportunities to consider when deciding to acquire operations or buy companies located in emerging markets. They also provide advice and action steps for overcoming common...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, Hewitt Associates LLC, emerging market; White papers 2003-09-29
Emerging Markets aren’t as Risky as You Think: Emerging markets have a reputation for volatility that leads many companies to overestimate the risk, causing them to reject good investment opportunities and to underestimate the performance of existing businesses. While individual markets can be highly volatile, research shows that a diversified portfolio of investments in them can have risk...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, Investment, McKinsey & Co., emerging market, volatility, performance; White papers 2003-01-01
The Role of Mature Market Mutual Funds in Emerging Markets: Myth or Mayhem?: The expansion of the global mutual funds industry has been characterized by growth in mature as well as emerging markets. This has clearly contributed to the development of local securities markets in emerging market economies, which in turn, has been key in attracting investment inflows from overseas funds. Our estimates...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, IMF, emerging market, mutual fund; White papers 2004-07-01
Research in Emerging Markets Finance: Looking to the Future: Much has been learned about emerging markets finance over the past 20 years. These markets have attracted a unique interdisciplinary interest that bridges both investment and corporate finance with international economics, development economics, law, demographics and political science. This paper document basically focuses on the research areas that are ripe...; Tags: Financial accounting, National Bureau of Economic Research, finance, emerging market; White papers 2002-09-11
Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Cycle Is the Trend: Business cycles in emerging markets are characterized by strongly counter-cyclical current accounts, consumption volatility that exceeds income volatility and dramatic "sudden stops" in capital inflows. These features contrast with developed small open economies and highlight the uniqueness of emerging markets. Nevertheless, the paper shows that both qualitatively and quantitatively a...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, National Bureau of Economic Research, emerging market, volatility, income; White papers 2004-08-01
Pension Funds and Emerging Markets: This paper focuses on the investment behavior of pension funds in developed and emerging market countries. First, it analyzes the main determinants of the emerging market asset allocation of pension funds in developed countries. Second, it assesses how pension funds in emerging markets have contributed to the development of local...; Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Marketing research, IMF, pension fund, emerging market, allocation; White papers 2004-09-01