The recent Egypt crisis and turmoil across the region has brought to the fore risks of investing in frontier markets. Paul Burgin looks at investment prospects and the issues to consider
The prolonged closure of the Egyptian stock exchange at the end of January highlights one of the many perils facing frontier market investors. Liquidity, access, political and social risk are just some of the factors that must be taken into account. Not surprisingly, investors are far less keen on frontiers than the more tried and tested mainstream emerging markets and they are also hampered by a lack of ETF product choice. Last year investors switched their equity focus away from developed markets in a bid to unearth outperformance in emerging economies. Global net new assets in emerg...
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