Emerging debt sector looks bright

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Emerging market debt funds in have managed to post strong annualised mean returns over the period fr...

Emerging market debt funds in have managed to post strong annualised mean returns over the period from August 1997 to July 2000, crises including the Russian debt default of 1998 notwithstanding. Performance has come at the price of high standard deviation. Average annualised mean return across the sector is 4.87%, with annualised standard deviation of 22.25%. The top performer in the sector is Ashmore Russian debt portfolio, run by specialised emerging debt investor Ashmore, which has an annualised mean return of 31.76%, and annualised standard deviation of 65.15%. The group takes a co...

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