Emerging Market Debt

We believe emerging markets will be an important source for wealth generation. While we have emerging market equities as 70% of long-term holdings we don’t discount a place for emerging market debt in an investor’s portfolio.

Analysis of emerging market debt can be leveraged (pardon the pun) to provide valuable insight for equity investors.

PIMCO is

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Emerging Market Equities – BRICs and Other Considerations

Every portfolio should contain exposure to international equities to take advantage of growth and currency opportunities.

As investors go international, they should look beyond the usual emerging markets.

Here, Forbes contributor Alexandra Zendrian advises us on how we should approach the use of emerging market equities within your international equities asset class:

“Emerging markets” has become an unfortunate

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Trek III: Wealth and Prosperity: Asset Accumulation: Long-Term Portfolio Recommendation

This is activity 26 of 47 in the Wealth & Prosperity in Prosperity Quadrant III trek.

 

This step on your prosperity trek…
This is an informational step.

Here is Prosperity Concierge’s current asset allocation investment recommendation for your long-term portfolio.

Long-Term Investment Allocation

(for funds not needed for at least 5 years)

65% Emerging Markets (with a concentration in Brazil)
30% U.S. Large Cap (with a concentration in technology (hardware and software))
5% Energy and other Natural Resources
Asset Allocation Advice

Here is related

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Economy in Recovery – Emerging Markets, Debt, Savings and Unemployment

This from Tim Bond, head of asset allocation at Barclays via Financial Times:

Economies recover much faster than most people think. “The average forecast for third-quarter US gross domestic product growth is a weak 0.8 per cent, which would be by far the slowest first quarter of any recovery on record. Since 1945, the average annualised

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U.S. Credit Usage and Global Growth

Richard Clarida of PIMCO contributed to this post. The big debate in global investing is whether decoupling is occurring. Decoupling refers to the prospect that emerging markets will grow in a fashion that is decoupled from developed markets. True, this is a global economy. However, if growth is distinctly different between

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Emerging Markets in Your Portfolio

Give serious consideration to having emerging market stocks in your portfolio.

Consider that emerging markets, at market-exchange rates, are expected to have 35% of world gross domestic product by 2013, according to the International Monetary Fund. To reach 35% of world GDP reflects remarkable growth. In fact, the emerging markets share of global economic

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