Category MSCI Emerging Markets Index

Amid divergent central bank policies, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index has underperformed its developed-market peers—down 5.0% YTD versus the MSCI World’s –0.8% through April—offering investors deeper insight into currency volatility in emerging markets and commodity headwinds reshaping emerging market investments…

MSCI Emerging Markets, the flagship benchmark for developing-world equities, tracks large- and mid-cap stocks across 24 emerging-market countries—thereby covering about 85 % of each local market’s free-float capitalisation and consequently serving as the core yard-stick for EM equity portfolios worldwide.…