Exploring underperformance of emerging markets, China's role, potential for resurgence, optimistic about specific markets, impact of interest rates on equities, predicting better performance but challenges, importance of monitoring rates and recession risks.
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Emerging markets' underperformance is due to decelerated growth, resulting in lower valuations for equities.
Emerging markets' performance should be evaluated in the broader global context, rather than solely attributing it to specific market characteristics.
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EM equities are optically cheap but growth has slowed
Emerging markets (EMs) are often considered cheap relative to US equities, but this may be due to the slowdown in growth. While EMs were once known as growth markets, the growth has considerably decelerated. This has resulted in lower valuations for EM equities, reflecting the reduced growth expectations. The perception that EMs are cheap is primarily due to the lack of investor interest and sentiments of being unloved in the market.
EM performance should be considered in a global context
Although EM equities have underperformed over the past decade, it is important to consider that global equities as a whole have experienced similar stagnation. In fact, when looking at developed markets excluding the US, the performance is also stagnant, indicating that the limitations in EM performance are not exclusive to emerging markets alone. This suggests that the performance of EMs should be evaluated in the broader global context rather than solely attributing it to the specific characteristics of these markets.
While rates are in focus in US markets, how are investors approaching emerging markets? Caesar Maasry, who leads the Emerging Markets Cross Asset Strategy team in Goldman Sachs Research, discusses the long period of underperformance in emerging markets and what their trajectory looks like into 2024.