Will Emerging Markets Shake Off “Acronym-itis”?

“Emerging is back”, although not as we know it, according to our guest today, BNP Paribas Investment Partners’ vice-chairman and LinkedIn influencer William De Vijlder. Having suffered more outflows in the first six weeks of 2014 than in the whole of 2013 on the back of crises in Turkey and Ukraine, as well as evidence of faltering growth in some of the world’s erstwhile superstar economies such as Brazil, emerging funds are pulling the cash back in. Emerging-market credit spreads are around their tightest in nearly a year, as a greater degree of confidence and stability return to some of these very volatile markets.

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