Why should income investors look to emerging markets?

I have always loved the equity income approach to investing. New investment techniques and approaches come and go (the latter all too frequently) but equity income investing has stood the test of time. I have heard it described as the “get rich slowly scheme”, which seems quite an apt description. What makes equity income investing particularly appealing is that it can put long-term economic forces on the side of the investor. We often use escalators as analogies to describe inherently good or bad investment strategies. If a strategy is invested in an asset class that is in fundamental l...