Investment Adventures in Emerging Markets

Emerging Markets Can Weather the US Rate Tightening Cycle
Perspective

Emerging Markets Can Weather the US Rate Tightening Cycle

The current period of rising interest rates and declining markets is unnerving, but it is also creating opportunities, according to Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity team.

Reflation Concerns Dampened Investor Optimism in February
Perspective

Reflation Concerns Dampened Investor Optimism in February

The month of February saw some challenges for emerging markets overall, but our Emerging Markets Equity team still sees reasons for optimism—including the strength of China’s recovery from COVID-19 and a number of potential structural opportunities in the wake of the pandemic.

Expectations of Economic Normalization in 2021 Drove Confidence in Emerging Markets in the Final Quarter of 2020
Asia

Expectations of Economic Normalization in 2021 Drove Confidence in Emerging Markets in the Final Quarter of 2020

Emerging markets managed to navigate a challenging 2020 amid the COVID-10 pandemic—in some cases better than developed markets. Our Emerging Markets Equity team outlines what drove optimism in the fourth quarter of 2020, and why it has an eye on East Asia in particular as economies continue to recover in the year ahead.