SRI issues continue to emerge in world

Eiris research shows majority of 50 emerging market companies examined are addressing at least some of their environmental, social and governance issues

Emerging markets first captured the imagination of investors on a wide scale in the early 1990s. However, it was primarily the appeal of the Asia (ex Japan) region, rather than the broader emerging universe that motivated investors to diversify their portfolios. At that time, one of the widely recognised characteristics of emerging markets was that the performance of the individual country exchanges displayed a low correlation with each other as well as to those of their peers in the developed universe. More than a decade on, we can see that the dynamic has changed considerably, with eac...