Like true love, cricket and – depending on your taste in music – a Kraftwerk box-set, emerging market (EM) equities, on a long-term investment horizon, are a gift that just keeps on giving. In 2012, the fourth full calendar year since the onset of the financial crisis, this love story stayed on script. While developed-market stocks rose, emerging-market securities soared, handing investors a return of nearly 19% in US dollar terms, based on the MSCI EM Index.
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