Emerging markets: buy when the news is bad

Emerging markets are being squeezed by local turmoil and by more general factors. But bad news can spell opportunity for investors.

Attack and capture of Ratisbon (The Battle of Ratisbon) by the Marshal Lannes © Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images

(Image credit: Attack and capture of Ratisbon (The Battle of Ratisbon) by the Marshal Lannes © Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

"One could throw a dart at a map of emerging markets and be almost assured of hitting a country in the grips of some sort of political crisis," writes Robert Burgess on Bloomberg. "Hong Kong, Turkey, South Africa, Chile, Lebanon and Ecuador" are only the start of the list.

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Alex is an investment writer who has been contributing to MoneyWeek since 2015. He has been the magazine’s markets editor since 2019. 

Alex has a passion for demystifying the often arcane world of finance for a general readership. While financial media tends to focus compulsively on the latest trend, the best opportunities can lie forgotten elsewhere. 

He is especially interested in European equities – where his fluent French helps him to cover the continent’s largest bourse – and emerging markets, where his experience living in Beijing, and conversational Chinese, prove useful. 

Hailing from Leeds, he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford. He also holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Manchester.