Emerging markets, Covid-19 and the small-cap opportunity

'Unloved asset class'

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It has been a tough decade to be an investor in emerging market equities. Over the past ten years, emerging market stocks have risen just 10% in US dollar terms. US stocks, by contrast, have risen 300% over the same period.

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