Page 16 - Emerging Markets

Mexico emerges most alluring EM, India worst

India is the least attractive developing nation for investors due to its relatively expensive stocks

The most popular investor picks for emerging markets in 2017

Tracking the favourites

Fund managers bullish on emerging markets, ratings agencies less keen

World's largest asset manager BlackRock is expecting gains from all emerging market asset classes

Foreign flows into India might hit a bump

Inflow from foreign portfolio investors into India is likely to get impacted in the near term

Clinton? Trump? Volatility wins either way

Analysts say that the sell-off in risky assets will be temporary and could be a buying opportunity for long-term investors

India pie in global fund flow dips

Down to 22% this year from 48% in 2015

Foreign capital flow into EMs climbs to $25 billion

Portfolio flows to EMs rose to $24.8 billion in July from $13.3 billion in the preceding month

Emerging markets including India to drive innovations in payments: PwC report

Report noted that the need for financial inclusion is driving new technologies and innovations

EMs worried robots could take away jobs: Rajan

However, in the near term, the main question facing the world is what will happen to the jobs of the middle class with the emergence of robots

Letters: Reliance on gold

With reference to "Emerging markets should go for gold" (May 9), Kenneth Rogoff has suggested the central banks in emerging market economies (EMEs) should buy more gold. He gives some reasons but there are difficulties with his arguments. First, he writes, "... there is a case to be made that gold is an extremely low-risk asset with average real returns comparable to very short-term debt." This isn't true if we consider data in a research paper by Robert Barro and Sanjay P Misra on "gold returns" (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 18759 in 2013).Second, given that the long-term average real return on gold for more than two centuries is much less than the return on short-term bonds of creditworthy governments, it follows that a purchase of gold by central banks at this stage is likely to be followed by a sale at some stage in future. The purchase now can induce a higher price and the sale at a later stage can induce a fall in price. So the central banks' actions wil

Kenneth Rogoff: Emerging markets should go for gold

As it is a highly liquid asset, central banks can afford to look past its short-term volatility to longer-run average returns