Emerging from crisis

While recent market events have shown the decoupling theory to be a myth, Victoria Hartley finds emerging markets are still best placed to bounce back quickly, with ETFs a top pick for easy access It's been a catastrophic few months for the emerging and frontier market economies. October witnessed some of the biggest falls ever recorded on the global indices and emerging economies like Russia and Brazil were among those taking the biggest hits. One emerging markets index tracker, the Standard & Poor's/IFCI Composite Index dropped 26.9% in October in contrast with its global developed inde...