As one of the best performing emerging markets year-to-date, why do so many investors still avoid India?
India, the world's fastest growing major economy, is witnessing significant injections of capital as the country opens up to foreign direct investment like never before with a reformist government investing heavily in infrastructure.
Raman Aylur Subramanian, head of equity applied research at MSCI, analyses the opportunities different emerging market countries have offered investors in the recent rally and how a handful of sectors have been key to the region's outperformance.
Maarten-Jan Bakkum, senior strategist, emerging markets at NN Investment Partners, explains how a small group of troubled countries is responsible for the deterioration of the average growth momentum in EMs.
With global emerging market equities recently rebounding to a year high, and flows returning strongly to the asset class, three managers reveal where they are looking to capitalise on the improvements in investor sentiment.
Regime change less of a threat
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India's economy has been running on the equivalent of Windows 98, making for slow, inefficient bureaucracy and disincentives to trade and investment.