Insights on emerging markets

Templeton Global Investments suggests emerging market leaders are evolving from scale-driven manufacturers to innovation-led global competitors across sectors such as AI, electrification and biotech.

In this month’s issue, AI, energy and robotics are creating new opportunities in emerging markets, but selectivity remains key as policy, cost and execution risks evolve.

In this quarterly deep dive publication, the Franklin Templeton Fixed Income team suggests a severe El Niño could drive higher inflation and weaker growth across many emerging markets, reinforcing the need for a selective, country-by-country investment approach.

The new investment case for global power, security and affordability. The phrase “energy transition” has served as a useful political and cultural shorthand, but it has become a misleading framework for capital allocation. Franklin Templeton Institute explodes new opportunities for investors—and where shifts in thinking may be needed.

Emerging markets face mounting headwinds as rising US bond yields, seasonal market weakness, and El Niño-driven food inflation strengthen the US dollar, pressure equities, and erode consumer purchasing power.

A three-lens framework for global investors. Franklin Templeton Institute believes China is building a self-reliant AI ecosystem through policy support and infrastructure investment, creating selective opportunities despite ongoing technology gaps and fragmented execution.

ClearBridge Investments outlines why the artificial intelligence boom has been led by Silicon Valley, but the next phase of value creation may be decided by physical bottlenecks.

Templeton Global Investments makes the case for APAC investing, with a pan-regional approach that encapsulates the entire spectrum of dynamic sectors and structural themes.

Managing a strategic rivalry: Thoughts on the summit between US President Trump and Chinese President Xi from Christy Tan.

Returning from a recent global research trip, Putnam Portfolio Manager Brian Freiwald describes several trends that point to the potential for continued outperformance for emerging market equities.

US/Iran conflict, Trump-Xi Summit and the re-routing of goods via land are three things we’re watching in this month’s Emerging Markets Insights.

Emerging markets are continuing to evolve and change. They are transitioning from the world’s manufacturing hub to a global innovation hub.

Dina Ting suggests emerging markets remain resilient and ahead of US equities, but performance varies widely beneath the surface. A multi-factor approach can help investors identify opportunities while mitigating risk.

Dina Ting addresses the question: What is the value of an exchange-traded fund that accesses markets in other parts of the world, when those markets are closed and don't have the opportunity to react to breaking news?

What might happen if investors looked beyond a US-only allocation—not only through broad emerging-market exposure, but also through targeted country allocations based on their investment convictions?

At the start of this year, many investors questioned whether equity markets had become too reliant on a handful of AI winners. Dina Ting and Marcus Weyerer take a more nuanced view into how broadly this theme’s benefits may spread.

South Korea is back on investors’ radar—but is this rally built to last? Dina Ting of Franklin Templeton ETFs unpacks what’s driving the surge—and whether the long-awaited re-rating can endure.

China’s underappreciated equity market and energy resilience amid current geopolitical tensions warrants consideration, according to Franklin Templeton ETFs’ Dina Ting. In this article, she discusses the different factors that underpin her views.

In this quarterly deep dive publication, the Franklin Templeton Fixed Income team suggests a severe El Niño could drive higher inflation and weaker growth across many emerging markets, reinforcing the need for a selective, country-by-country investment approach.

Franklin Templeton Institute finds valuations across fixed income sectors becoming more attractive, with all-in yields approaching compelling levels—a signal to consider moving from a short-duration bias toward core bond portfolios.

Foundational improvements in market structure and policy frameworks have strengthened emerging markets’ (EM) resilience to external shocks.

This quarterly deep dive from the Franklin Templeton Fixed Income team analyses emerging market performance to try to understand whether strong, positive cycles offer clues to more efficient allocations across hard-currency and local-currency debt.

Although sentiment remains sensitive to headlines around the Strait of Hormuz and energy markets, Franklin Templeton’s Emerging Markets Debt team sees an asset class that has shown it can absorb shocks, even as renewed geopolitical flare-ups or a broader risk-off episode could still test markets.

In their latest publication, Templeton Global Macro highlights recent changes for developed and emerging markets in its ESG Index, including an increasing number of countries with positive momentum.