GEM region has exhibited superior growth characteristics over 2009

Looking back over the past decade, the performance of emerging markets has brought approving comments from even the most hardened critics.

The region has risen in status, improved immensely in terms of stability and has exhibited superior growth characteristics that have become hard for investors to ignore. Indeed, when pitched against developed markets, the level and speed of growth within the region is even more impressive. At the conclusion of the decade, the MSCI Emerging Market index had posted gains of 161.4% for the 10-year period beating all expectations, compared with a 14.8% return for the FTSE All World Index, proving ‘the noughties’ was truly a pivotal decade for the region, establishing emerging markets as a key p...