Emerging Markets Continue To Draw Funds Looking For Return

After a brief panic earlier this year, many money managers have been putting cash back to work in such unpredictable markets, lured by cheap stocks and strong measures taken by local policy makers. But few are committing significant funds to Turkey, spooked by the autocratic tendencies of Mr. Erdogan and the economy’s dependence on volatile investment flows.

Mr. Leverenz, however, is convinced that his biggest investment successes — from Internet stocks in China and Russia, to housing finance companies in India — have sprung from his ability to ignore the passing wisdoms of the market. So he is buying Turkish stocks, convinced over the long term that Mr. Erdogan’s radical reform ambitions will transform Turkey.

It is part of Mr. Leverenz’s broader credo that emerging nations like China, Brazil, Russia and especially India after the victory of Hindu party leader Narendra Modi — are experiencing economic and social change that won’t be reversed.

“I truly believe that these countries are in a period of significant progress,” said Mr. Leverenz. “It will be dynamic, chaotic even, but the developed world really needs to watch its back.”

Such sweeping optimism — or cheerleading as some would have it — has been a central tenet of the decade-long boom in emerging markets. Assets of emerging market equity funds in the United States exploded to $388 billion now, from $89 billion in 2008, according to Thomson Reuters.

via CNBC

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