Categorie: Emerging Markets
Submitted 7 months ago by
Lovephileo
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at LIGHT OF THE WORLD CHRISTIAN CENTER
As a backgrounder, the beginning for emerging market stocks was in 1602 with the formation of the Dutch East Indian Company (Holland) where the first stock market was created in 1606. In 1700's the Mississippi Company (France) and the South Sea Company (England) were sold to investors, also historic emerging market investments that made and lost investor fortunes.Emerging markets and public investors have been an investment phenomenon for about 400 years and are still a phenomenon today. The last 20 years, from 1987-2007 handily outperformed the world markets, excluding the US and the US markets. Emerging market is initially applied to fast growing economies in Asia and was used in Eastern Europe after the fall of Berlin Wall. And as global interest in market driven economies grew, investors began to look Latin America for emerging markets and eventually at countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, China, India and Russia.Today, as noted by Van Agtmael, CEO of Emerging Markets Management in Arlington, VA; emerging markets countries account for 85% of the world's population but generate just 20% of global gross national product. According to him, given that we are now experiencing a huge shift in the global economy, where many emerging markets are starting to become middle class, consumer is becoming increasing important . Infrastructure spending now exceeds that in the US or Europe, and a steadily larger groups of companies are becom...
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Submitted 7 months ago by
Lovephileo
, WEB CONSULTANT / PASTOR
at LIGHT OF THE WORLD CHRISTIAN CENTER
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