The push into passive emerging market funds has been great in recent years, Brandes says.
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Emerging market funds are also tracked over four market cycles, starting Feb. 28, 1995.
So you can choose among various preselected options from bond to emerging market funds.
Foreign holdings are a relatively small portion of my portfolio and are concentrated in global and emerging market funds.
The fund offers investors a way to take advantage of the relative strength of emerging and developed Asian markets without taking on the risk associated with most emerging market funds.
Emerging market funds and global equity funds also posted weekly inflow records as investors continued the rotation out of bonds and cash and towards equities, a trend that started in earnest in December.
Almost the only buyers of emerging-market shares are dedicated emerging-market funds.
Hence, the large negative outflow from emerging market equity funds is unlikely a surprise to investors.
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Inflows into emerging market equity funds were muted in the last week despite the rally.
But, within emerging market equity funds, pessimism about China is getting trumped by overall optimism on Asia.
They own Baidu in two of their international and emerging market growth funds.
The best emerging market bond funds this year have large positions in Brazil.
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This has prompted a general shift of money out of emerging-market funds into safer havens, such as American Treasuries.
Inflows into emerging market bond funds gained momentum this week because the risk backdrop became more supportive on the back of the E.
According to the recent Morningstar rankings, the top performing emerging market bond funds this year all have positions in Brazil, with Russia in second place.
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Emerging market investment funds are facing a rising wall of money.
The big emerging market bond funds skyrocketed because investors returned to the relative safety of government investment grade debt issued by countries that they trust, like Brazil.
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Consider the two big emerging-market funds, from Vanguard and iShares.
Mr Gilbert said the level of fixed-income business that had left Aberdeen Asset Management had "slowed significantly" and the company continued to be successful in attracting new investment to global equity and emerging market equity funds.
On the equity side, compared to the benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets index, global emerging market equity funds were underweight, in order of less weighting, Brazil, China and Russia, and slightly overweight India up to June 11, according to EPFR Global and Barclays.
Investors, says the bank, should buy shares in multinational firms with big emerging-market businesses instead of emerging-market shares and funds.
He holds emerging market equities through the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets Index (VWO) ETF and emerging market local currency bond funds.
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Emerging-market bond funds saw 2 consecutive weeks of outflows for the first time since April 2009.
Outflows from emerging market dedicated bond funds were basically unchanged from last week.
Last week, the black box investors at Boston quant fund ClearStream Investments said the big emerging market exchange traded funds were all a buy.
The wizard inside the black box over at Boston quant shop ClearStream Investments has opted in to emerging market exchange traded funds after being cash only for nearly a month.
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