Merryn Talks Money
Why Emerging Markets Can Still Be a Good Bet
They’ve had a bad stretch, but fund manager Jonathan Asante explains how picky investors can make them work.
Emerging markets have had a bad decade, with an average annual return of a mere 1.19%. Above, workers at the Sao Joaquim market in Salvador, Brazil.
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Emerging markets have had a rotten time of late, with an average annual return of a mere 1.19% over the last decade. The MSCI World Index by contrast has returned 7.53% a year. So who would want to set up an emerging market fund? Jonathan Asante says he would. He joins this week’s Merryn Talks Money to talk about why.