Frontier and emerging markets

Please share your risk and reward analysis on frontiermarkets and emerging markets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_markets

FrontierMarkets is an economicterm which was coined by International Finance Corporation’sFaridaKhambata in 1992. It is commonly used to describe a subset of emergingmarkets (EMs

FTSE list

FTSE classification, as ofSeptember 2010 frontier markets list:^[3]

Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Bulgaria, Côted'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Jordan, Kenya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Vietnam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_markets

Emerging markets

Emergingmarkets are nations withsocial or business activity in the process of rapid growthand industrialization

The Advanced Emerging marketsare:

Brazil	Czech Republic	Hungary	Malaysia	Mexico
Poland[14]	South Africa	Taiwan[14]	Turkey

The secondaryemerging markets are:

Chile	China	Colombia	Egypt	India
Indonesia	Morocco	Pakistan	Peru	Philippines
Russia	Thailand[15]	UAE

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-28/emerging-stock-funds-post-2nd-week-of-inflows-citi-says.html

EmergingStock Funds Post 2nd Week of Inflows, Citi Says

October 28, 2011, 5:51 AM EDT


http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-27/emerging-markets-bulls-push-calls-to-highest-since-2009-options.html


EmergingMarkets Bulls Push Calls to Highest Since 2009: Options

October 27, 2011, 4:50 PM EDT

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg)-- Options traders are making more bets than any time since 2009 that emergingmarket equities will climb after valuations fell to the lowest levels in threeyears.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-28/asian-stocks-advance-after-u-s-economic-growth-europe-deal-boost-outlook.html
Asia Stocks Set to Rise Most in a Week Since ’09 on U.S., Europe

A visitor looks at an electronic stock board at the Tokyo Stock Exchangein Tokyo. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose 1.3 percent to 124.49 as of 9:13a.m. in Tokyo.

A visitor looks at an electronicstock board at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo. The MSCI Asia Pacific Indexrose 1.3 percent to 124.49 as of 9:13 a.m. in Tokyo. Photographer: TomohiroOhsumi/Bloomberg
Asian stocks rose, sending the regionalbenchmark index toward its biggest weekly gain in more than two years, as thefastest U.S. economic growth in a year and Europe’s debt deal boosted theoutlook for exporters


http://news.tradingcharts.com/futures/0/5/167298150.html

BRIEF: South African markets, currency up on news ofeurozone plan

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 27, 2011 (dpa - McClatchy-Tribune Information Servicesvia COMTEX) -- The Johannesburg Top-40 share index was up 2.5 per cent inearly afternoon trading on Thursday, as markets reacted favourably to news thatEuropean leaders had moved closer to solving the eurozone debt crisis.

The all-shares index at Africa's largest exchange was also higher by 2.2 percent, lifted by mining shares on the back of rising gold and platinum prices.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/28/kenya-markets-idUSL5E7LS2MN20111028

UPDATE 1-Kenyan stocksjump 2 pct, shilling inches up

Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:55am EDT

Stocks rise 4.4 pct in week as foreigners return

* Shilling reverses earlier gains as bank buy dollars
* C.bank mops up shilling liquidity via repos

NAIROBI, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Kenyan shares vaulted 2 percent
on Friday to their highest in five weeks as foreign investors
trooped back to riskier assets in search of bargains, while the
shilling firmed slightly.

The benchmark NSE-20 Share Index added 2.02 percent
to close at 3,450.33 points, last touched on Sept.20, as
overseas investors tapped buying opportunities in agricultural
and banking shares, and buoyed by positive local investor
sentiments following two weekly gains in a row

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Hey Hiddengem,

I invest via the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) a break down of what the fund invests in.

They emerging markets have suffered in the recent down turn like most other markets. They do seem to be getting some confidence back. I will wait until they cross over the 200 day MA before getting back in the market though.

A break down of the the ten largest countries as % of common stock:
China 16.8%
Brazil 14.7
Korea 14.6
Taiwan 11.3
South Africa 7.9
India 7.7
Russia 6.4
Mexico 4.7
Malaysia 3.4
Indonesia 2.9

Hey LOU

I really appreciate for your time Particularlyhighlighting quality Emerging market ETF.

Yes I agree with you on emerging markets.

What about sector oriented ETFS?

Remember last time during period of recession credit crisisand subprime crisis some sectors and some businesses outperformed thebroader markets.

Pl see following link:

http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/Hedge-Funds-sector-allocation-sector-SPDR/10/31/2011/id/37654

SectorRotation for the Hedged Investor

By Wayne Ferbert Oct 31, 2011 9:10 am

The Consumer Staples ETFis still a safe place to be -- but don't expect a significant outperformancegiven the one-year run it's already had
Let’s lookat our current bias. Technology, Consumer Staples, and Energy are the threesectors where we have long biased positions, so we look for solid companies inthese sectors. Even if we don’t find a specific company that meets our tightvalue bias, we still create long exposure to the sector using broad-based ETFswhile we look for these companies. In particular, the Sector SPDR ETFs havethese three sectors covered nicely with Technology (XLK), Energy (XLE), and ConsumerStaples (XLP). And these three ETFsall have a robust options market, which makes it easier to hedge them.

Looking atthe chart below, these three sectors have done nicely in 2011 year todate, asall have outperformed the S&P 500 (SPY):

NB:

No positionsin ETFs mentioned

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Do you think it is time to identify some emerging market and frontier markets?

I found very interesting link about emerging and frontier markets.

http://blogs.wsj.com/frontiers/2014/...rging-markets/

Mobius Reveals His Favorite Five Beleaguered Emerging Markets

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2bfd1...#axzz36Lk8L7Nx

Look for value trades in emerging markets

http://www.investmentweek.co.uk/inve...r-markets-fund

T. Rowe Price launches frontier markets fund

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...ne-shares.html

Emerging Stocks Rise as China Mobile Leads Surge in Phone Shares

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...ts-growth.html
China H-Shares Poised for Bull Market as Stimulus Boosts Growth

http://www.bidnessetc.com/23606-fron...cation-basket/

Frontier Markets- The New Egg In The Diversification Basket

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/emergi...stone-cm386047

Emerging Markets: Sri Lanka, Land of the Moonstone

http://www.ftseglobalmarkets.com/new...atch-list.html

FTSE adds Latvia and Palestine to frontier market ‘watch list’ -

http://tribune.com.pk/story/774049/w...of-turbulence/

Weekly review: KSE closes flat after two days of turbulence

http://tribune.com.pk/story/774375/f...at-the-market/


First quarter: Top Performing Equity Funds Beat the Market

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-1...s-by-2017.html

Romanian Bourse Seeks MSCI Emerging Market Status by 2017

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/busines...-the-economist

Pakistan’s stock market is doing well: The Economist

http://www.dailymirror.lk/54979/sri-...5-next-5-years

Sri Lankan Equities To Grow 25% Next 5-years

Personally, I think you should be in most markets, be they developed, developing, emerging, frontier, or whatever. But it's pretty difficult to pick which particular geography, so I do it by ETF against the appropriate index.

The less developed the market, the lower the proportion of the portfolio that goes there. So there's a core of developed markets, orbited by various satellites. Along with some other satellites by sector, such as energy or biotech funds.

Everything goes belly up at some point, but it's best if you can structure things so That they don't all clap out together.

Personally, I think you should be in most markets, be they developed, developing, emerging, frontier, or whatever. But it's pretty difficult to pick which particular geography, so I do it by ETF against the appropriate index.

The less developed the market, the lower the proportion of the portfolio that goes there. So there's a core of developed markets, orbited by various satellites. Along with some other satellites by sector, such as energy or biotech funds.

Everything goes belly up at some point, but it's best if you can structure things so That they don't all clap out together.

Yes. I agree with you. Intelligent investors and funds invest not only in developed market but also in emerging markets and frontiers markets. Globally even we had opportunities in markets such as Pakistan and Argentina. They were out of favour markets in the past and later they became two of the best performing markets in the world. No it is not difficult to select particular geography provided we do some home work. Latest additions to current bull markets are emerging market China and frontier markets such as Bangladesh and Sri-Lanka. These three have more rooms to appreciate their stock markets.

My ideas are not a recommendation to either buy or sell any security, commodity or currency. Please do your own research prior to making any investment decisions.

http://marketrealist.com/2015/02/hig...ke-attractive/

Why Frontier Markets Are Good Diversifiers

An interesting read on emerging markets.

http://www.mauldineconomics.com/down...great-unravell

Thank you for the link. It is time to stay away from bubble stocks and bubble property markets and it is time to find undervalued stocks, commodities and other assets globally (including emerging and frontier markets).

http://citywireglobal.com/news/time-to-go-...rformer/a834807

Time to go beyond frontier markets, says EM equity outperformer

Fed decision is going to benefit emerging and frontier markets. As a region South Asia is standing out from the rest of Asia.

Asia-Ex China is offering some opportunities. As a region I am bullish on south Asia. India is an emerging market. Frontier markets such as Sri-Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan comes under the category of frontier markets. There are great opportunities in sectors such as food, infrastructure, textiles and tourism sectors in the south Asian frontier and emerging markets. Low commodity inflation is boom and boon to them.

There are oversold stocks and bonds in the developing world now.

http://blogs.barrons.com/asiastocks/...-fed-decision/

• Foreigners Tiptoe Into India, Korea, Taiwan Ahead Of Fed Decision

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/09/front...and-south.html

Frontier markets: Investors go west ... east, south and north

Weak commodity prices are a big positive for frontier markets such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. In other words lower commodity prices will be beneficial for both companies and government finances in those countries. Consumer stocks should do well in those countries as a result of positive consumer spending. There are attractive stocks in those markets.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3810...l-2016-outlook

My ideas are not a recommendation to either buy or sell any security, commodity or currency. Please do your own research prior to making any investment decisions.

http://www.wisebread.com/a-beginner-...ontier-markets

A Beginner’s Guide to Investing in Frontier Markets

http://www.iii.co.uk/articles/309241...est-asia-again

Is it time to invest in Asia again?

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http://www.iii.co.uk/articles/309241...est-asia-again

Is it time to invest in Asia again?

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Possibly.

I'd limit myself to Korea, Singapore, and India though. And be aware of currency issues, especially with India.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/06/hsbc-...g-vietnam.html

HSBC shuffles frontier market picks, upgrading Sri Lanka and cutting Vietnam

https://www.thefinancialist.com/fron...on-the-move-2/

·Asia's Frontier Markets
Frontier Markets: Asian Countries Are on the Move

http://blogs.barrons.com/asiastocks/201 ... g-markets/

Are Frontier Investments Better Than Emerging Markets?

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article56934.html

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Golden Opportunity for Frontier Asia

Frontier market is another asset class which has some great opportunities. Asian frontier markets such as Vietnam and Pakistan also have more legs. Frontier markets which under-performed in 2016 such as Sri-Lanka and Mongolia could become some of the winning markets in 2017 along with Bangaladesh.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/4021...lanka-mongolia

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos...er-bet-than-em