Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets

Emerging Market Insights: Middle East impact muted
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Emerging Market Insights: Middle East impact muted

Fears of higher interest rates for longer continue to weigh on equities—including those in emerging markets. Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity explores this and more in its latest market outlook.

Emerging Markets Insights: Golden Week
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Emerging Markets Insights: Golden Week

While China’s recovery will aid trade and benefit other emerging markets (EMs), at a sector level, local, consumption-driven growth will remain a core theme for many EM economies, according to Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity.

Emerging Markets Insights: From BRICS to BRICS+
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Emerging Markets Insights: From BRICS to BRICS+

The opportunity set is wide and growing wider in emerging markets, according to Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity. Get the team’s latest outlook.

Emerging Markets Insights: Fund flows improving
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Emerging Markets Insights: Fund flows improving

Uncertainty toward emerging market economies is waning, as countries are focusing on growth strategies and policies to spur their respective economies. Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity explores the investment implications.

Emerging Markets Insights: The dominance of technology
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Emerging Markets Insights: The dominance of technology

Emerging markets have been adopting new technologies, which solve existing challenges, raise productivity and reflect changing consumption patterns. Learn more from Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity.

Emerging Markets Insights: Emerging market earnings outlook
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Emerging Markets Insights: Emerging market earnings outlook

The earnings season in emerging markets is underway, and flat headline earnings growth in 2023 masks significant divergence across individual markets, according to Franklin Templeton’s Emerging Markets Equity.

Middle East & North Africa: New growth drivers
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Middle East & North Africa: New growth drivers

The MENA region is home to a number of dynamic countries and companies—with a diverse range of investment opportunities. Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity’s Salah Shamma and Bassel Khatoun make a case for investing in the region.

Emerging Market Insights: Headwinds for EMs from higher bond yields
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Emerging Market Insights: Headwinds for EMs from higher bond yields

Market swings seem likely in coming months, but Franklin Templeton’s Emerging Markets Equity team is focused on corporate fundamentals and longer-term structural trends including digitalization and premiumization. Get the team’s latest outlook.

Emerging Market Insights: Domestic demand in focus
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Emerging Market Insights: Domestic demand in focus

Global equities began the year on a strong footing—particularly emerging markets. Is now a good time to jump in? Franklin Templeton’s Emerging Markets Equity team offers its latest outlook.

Emerging Markets Insights: Optimism on 2023 outlook
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Emerging Markets Insights: Optimism on 2023 outlook

As we head further into 2023, our Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity Team finds many reasons to be constructive about emerging markets.

What’s in the price? MENA fixed income outlook for 2023
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What’s in the price? MENA fixed income outlook for 2023

Fixed income faced a challenging 2022, but 2023 looks more promising for global sukuk and GCC fixed income, according to Dino Kronfol. He believes a focus on higher-quality fixed income sectors is prudent given continued uncertainties.

Outlook for GCC bond and equity markets amid macroeconomic headwinds
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Outlook for GCC bond and equity markets amid macroeconomic headwinds

With growth slowing and recession becoming more of a possibility amid elevated inflation and hawkish central banks globally, GCC bond and equity markets have become more volatile. Nevertheless, there are still opportunities in select countries and sectors that are more defensive in nature or could benefit from the same macroeconomic factors causing general uncertainty. Franklin Templeton’s Mohieddine Kronfol and Salah Shamma share their thoughts on the current environment and where they see opportunities in their respective areas.