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Should You Invest in Frontier Markets?

25 min • 23 juni 2021

What are the risks and opportunities of investing in frontier equity markets?

Topics covered include:

What are the criteria used to determine whether a country's stock market is considered a frontier, emerging, or developed market
Why some countries aren't included in any MSCI stock index
How large are frontier markets in terms of population, economic output, and equity markets
How frontier market's favorable demographic profile make them attractive, but might not lead to higher investment returns
What are the risks of investing in frontier markets
How expensive or cheap are frontier markets
What have been frontier market's historical returns, volatility, and maximum drawdowns
What are ways to invest in frontier markets

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Show Notes

MSCI Market Classification

Frontier markets Longer Term Investments (LTI) by Corinne de Boursetty—UBS (PDF download)