Emerging world has further to go

Investors hungry for returns are heading for emerging markets, says Andrew Van Sickle.

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If you're searching for signs that investors are thinking of running for the hills, take a look at emerging markets and think again, says Benjamin Dow on Bloomberg. These countries are traditionally seen as risky assets, which nervous investors tend to sell first if the mood turns bearish on global markets. Yet the benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets index has just reached a two-year high.It has gained more than a fifth this year.

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Andrew Van Sickle
Editor, MoneyWeek

Andrew is the editor of MoneyWeek magazine. He grew up in Vienna and studied at the University of St Andrews, where he gained a first-class MA in geography & international relations.

After graduating he began to contribute to the foreign page of The Week and soon afterwards joined MoneyWeek at its inception in October 2000. He helped Merryn Somerset Webb establish it as Britain’s best-selling financial magazine, contributing to every section of the publication and specialising in macroeconomics and stockmarkets, before going part-time.

His freelance projects have included a 2009 relaunch of The Pharma Letter, where he covered corporate news and political developments in the German pharmaceuticals market for two years, and a multiyear stint as deputy editor of the Barclays account at Redwood, a marketing agency.

Andrew has been editing MoneyWeek since 2018, and continues to specialise in investment and news in German-speaking countries owing to his fluent command of the language.