Focus on technology to profit from eastern promise in emerging markets

This year’s best-performing emerging market (EM) shouldn’t really be classified as an emerging market at all. South Korea’s high-tech industrial base is a match for any of the world’s leading develope

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We’re now halfway through the decade that began with Covid, which was succeeded by a surge in the cost of living. Geopolitical turmoil has also buffeted markets in recent years. This year, however, wa

Last year was a horrible year for the active fund-management industry. Investors have consistently been pulling money from active investment funds over the past decade, but outflows accelerated in 202

The winners and losers of 2025 It felt ...

“The failure of economists to forecast recessions is virtually unblemished,” notes Prakash Loungani, assistant director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This includes the economists at the IM