Principal’s Shah Says Emerging Markets Sidle Until China Revives

  • EM valuations look attractive if pandemic recovery takes hold
  • Investors need to be ready to jump should China ‘play ball’
WATCH: Seema Shah at Principal Global Investors talks about the outlook for emerging markets on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”Source: Bloomberg
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Emerging-market valuations are looking more attractive, and a turnaround for the asset class will depend on China.

That’s according to Seema Shah, chief strategist at Principal Global Investors, who told Bloomberg Television Friday that the world’s second-largest economy needs to show a convincing revival from the pandemic to get developing nations in gear. And predicting when that will happen is, well, complicated.