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India reaps rewards 1
Investors flock to a more liberalized economy The Indian market is on a bull run. Year-to-date Sept. 30, it was the second-best-performing emerging market on the Morgan Stanley Capital International Index, behind Malaysia, with a return of 63.5% in U.S.
Read MoreInefficiency=risk 2
Mutual fund investors are repeatedly told not to try to time the market, but such advice doesn’t work for the emerging market, where returns are subject to wide fluctuations. Evidence shows that investors who use a buy-and-hold strategy in emerging
Read MoreMalaysia recovers health 0
Harsh doses of domestic medicine worked As Asia begins to recover from its 1997 meltdown, Malaysia has emerged as the region’s leading market, with a year-to-date return of 39.8% in US$ at April 30 on the Morgan Stanley Capital International
Read MoreSouth Africa’s deceiving blip 0
Signs of strength, but many drawbacks await South Africa is once again showing up on the radar screens of foreign investors, but the blip may be deceiving. The value of the country’s stock market was up 12.3% in U.S.-dollar terms
Read MoreFrontier Markets – Investing in brave new worlds 5
Frontier markets – emerging but not yet emerged – are the 18 stock markets that the International Finance Corporation, the Washington-based private sector arm of the World Bank, has placed on ‘watch’ to become the world’s newest emerging markets. The
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