We’ve been expressing our positive view about Vietnam as a favored investment destination in emerging markets since last June. Since then, the Ho Chi Minh Index has appreciated more than 50% in U.S. dollar terms. Source: Bloomberg Stock market rallies require a combination of economic and financial fundamentals followed by Read more
Why Emerging Markets Could More Than Double Before the Bull Is Over Back in April, we drew attention to the ongoing rally in emerging markets that began early in 2016, corrected sharply at the time of the U.S. election last November, and then took off again as fears of a Read more
Money Keeps Flowing Into European and Emerging-Market Stocks — Here’s Why We began to get bullish on European and emerging-market stocks a few months ago. Now major financial media are joining us, citing the same data we’ve observed: a broad uptick in global growth and economic vitality is suggesting that Read more
Market Summary In the last few weeks, U.S. and world equity markets have exhibited the greatest period of weakness since January because of concerns that President Trump’s tax cuts and infrastructure spending will be delayed or abandoned — and at the same time, the arrival of fears due to Read more
Market Summary Buy Volatility and Buy Gold If You Are a Long-Term Investor U.S. stocks are getting cheaper: is a short-term market bottom near? The key event this week was the strong rise of volatility and of gold after political surprises near the U.S. election: Wikileaks, FBI investigations, and tightening Read more
Market Summary The key to global stock markets is the U.S. dollar and U.S. interest rates. We have all seen U.S. interest rates rise, and that is potentially difficult for developed and emerging markets. Developed markets will be impacted as yield instruments become more competitive compared to stocks. Emerging markets Read more
The Case for Emerging-Market Assets We are getting more bullish on EM. We have been bullish on certain emerging-market assets since earlier this year, particularly Brazilian bonds. We viewed them as a reversion-to-the-mean trade as commodity prices stabilized and Brazil found its way to the resolution of its long-running political Read more
Executive Summary 1. Critically important to your investments: popular revolts against corruption around the world. This trend will last for decades, and upset many of the patterns we think we know. Corruption and cronyism have existed throughout human history, and ordinary people have usually accepted them with stoic resignation. But Read more
Investment Summary U.S. stock market earnings and growth prospects remain positive. The U.S. market is having a normal correction, and we will use this opportunity to spend some of the cash we have raised to buy stocks at a discount. The U.S. trailing P/E as of December 31, 2013 was about 16 Read more
Investment Summary The four emerging trends mentioned above are all significant parts of understanding the investment picture for 2014 and for the remainder of the decade. Trend #1: With large banks curtailing commodity trading businesses, there should be less risk of instability in commodity markets. The U.S. banking system could actually be Read more
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