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Wells Fargo Private Bank Director of Asset Allocation and Strategy Ron Florance on where the opportunities are in frontier markets. Ron gives his opinion on ETFs for the space. Ron thinks that, despite the opportunities, passive management Read more…
Slok Carpenter: What are CIVETS anyway? A Goldman Sachs economist coined the term BRIC ten years ago describing the four big emerging markets he predicted would drive global economic growth: Brazil, Russia, India and China. Read more…
Neena Mishra: Vietnam ETF (NYSEARCA:VNM) was the third best performer among all equity ETFs during the first quarter of 2012, behind only Market Vectors Egypt ETF (NYSEARCA:EGPT) and Market Vectors India SmallCap ETF (NYSEARCA:SCIF). Read more…
Zacks ETF Research: Uncertainty in the U.S. markets, the ongoing euro-zone debt crisis, has shaken investors’ confidence in some developed nations. As such, investors are looking for the opportunity to purchase securities elsewhere—namely in emerging nations– which have potentially higher returns with Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: If you like extreme risk and consider living on the edge to be “normal,” today’s column isn’t for you. Today I’m writing to the millions of investors who are completely terrified by the prospect of what’s next and who simply want their faith restored – not to mention their investments. Read more…
Sara Nunnally: Emerging markets (NYSEArca:VWO) are hot. But when it comes to the best of them all, there’s one relatively undiscovered country you need to know about. Read more…
NYSE:EEM, NYSE:EPHE, NYSE:EPU, NYSE:EWY, NYSE:IDX, NYSE:VNM, NYSE:VWO
David Gillie: For those of you in my generation, the thought of Vietnam brings up visuals of military carnage as seen on the nightly news of the 1960′s. This is what Vietnam looks like today. Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: You may be surprised to learn that some of the world’s best investors are buying heavily right now – not because they think we’ve hit a bottom, or even the bottom, but because they’re setting themselves up for the next big run. Read more…
Eric Dutram: One of the biggest stories in the investing world over the past few years as been the rise of emerging markets. These countries continue to grow at an impressive clip and are in a much better position from a fiscal perspective than their developed market counterparts. Furthermore, the countries Read more…
Frank Holmes: Markets in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan and Korea were closed last week as people across Asia celebrated Moon Festival, one of the culture’s most beloved holidays along with Chinese New Year. Moon Festival’s origins center around a husband (Houyi) and wife (Chang’e), who were sentenced to live Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: Oil prices, like stocks, took a few big hits last week. West Texas Intermediate crude last week dropped below $80 a barrel before bouncing back up to $87 a barrel this week. Meanwhile, Brent crude fell to a six-month low below $100 a barrel before climbing back to $110 a barrel this Read more…
In response to market demand, S&P Indices has launched the S&P CIVETS 60, a tradable index comprised of second-generation emerging markets, characterized by dynamic, rapidly changing Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: Late last year, as part of Money Morning‘s “Outlook 2011″ economic-forecast series, I suggested investing in emerging markets that were relatively cheaply priced Read more…
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Certain investment themes become so well known that they merit their own acronym. One of those is the BRICs – shorthand for the popular emerging market countries Brazil, Russia, India and China. 
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