What distinguishes the Emerging Markets?
Emerging Markets refers to countries that are typically undergoing a transformation from a developing to developed or advanced economy. This convergence and modernisation process opens up great market potential, and Emerging Markets exhibit high growth dynamics. At Raiffeisen Capital Management, we believe that a broadly diversified fund portfolio should also include investments in the Emerging Markets over the medium to long term – if the investor is willing to bear the associated risk. Positive factors are low debt, moderate monetary policy and, as previously mentioned, the potential for strong growth, whereas the economic structures and political systems in these countries are often still in flux. Therefore, Emerging Market funds generally exhibit elevated volatility.
Emerging Markets are becoming more and more interesting for sustainable investments
From a sustainability perspective, Emerging Markets have often been considered unattractive, but the tide is turning. In this interview, Jürgen Maier, fund manager of Raiffeisen Sustainable EmergingMarkets Equities, explains, among other things, how an Emerging Markets equity fund can be managed sustainably and which markets or sectors are particularly in focus.
Investing in Emerging Market bonds (now)?
Emerging Market bonds generally offer higher yields than bonds from developed industrialised countries, not least due to their above-average growth and the increasing global economic importance of many Emerging Markets. Nevertheless, the associated risks should not be ignored.
Why invest in Emerging Market equities?
For a long time, investments in Emerging Markets provided investors with above-average returns. However, over the last 15 years, only a few Emerging Markets have managed to do so, especially in the equity markets. Are the good times now returning?
Promote the ESG improvement of the EM bond markets
The Emerging Markets present a number of major challenges for investors when it comes to sustainability and ESG-criteria. However, understanding and overcoming these challenges also opens up significant opportunities, both in terms of earnings and promoting a transition to sustainable business practices in the Emerging Markets.
Assessing Emerging Markets from an ESG perspective has become a necessity
ESG criteria must also be considered when it comes to the Emerging Markets. For investors, this leads to many challenges. How investment professionals handle this is discussed by Stefan Grünwald, fund manager for Raiffeisen-EmergingMarkets-ESG-Transformation-Rent.
Emerging Markets: focus on Eastern Europe
Invest in funds with focus on Eastern Europe
Invest sustainably in Central and Eastern European equities
Central and Eastern Europe continues to have the best growth prospects in Europe, despite the war in Ukraine. The region attracts investors with mostly attractive equity valuations - not least because many foreign investors continue to wait and see. However, they could also quickly abandon their caution under certain circumstances.
Eastern European bonds: promising, despite uncertainties
Bonds from issuers in Central and Eastern Europe have delivered quite respectable returns for investors over the past twelve months. What does the outlook for 2025 look like?
CEE Asset Management Radar
The CEE Asset Management Radar combines economic data with the development of the asset management industry for the first time, thus enabling an assessment of the development potential of the individual CEE countries, among other things.
Emerging Markets: Asia
Invest in Asia
Sustainable investments in Asia
Asia is not only the largest and most populous continent in the world, but also the fastest-growing. Despite economic and/or political risks in some places, some economic sectors are growing particularly strongly and offer above-average earnings opportunities.
Good valuations and improvements in ESG reporting
The Chinese equity market has priced in a number of negative aspects, according to Jürgen Maier, who is confident about the prospects for China as the leading market, as well as for India. Maier, fund manager of Raiffeisen-Nachhaltigkeit-EmergingMarkets-Aktien, cites several arguments and discusses the stringent sustainability requirements applied in the asset selection process and the progress in fulfilling ESG criteria. He currently finds certain topics very attractive.
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The funds Raiffeisen-Nachhaltigkeit-EmergingMarkets-Aktien and Raiffeisen-Osteuropa-Aktien exhibit elevated volatility, meaning that unit prices can move significantly higher or lower in short periods of time, and it is not possible to rule out loss of capital.