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- Frontier markets are generally in earlier stages of economic and capital market development compared to the better-known emerging markets. To invest in these markets (1)
- as well as the particularities of their regulations. With regards to the stock markets (1)
- benchmarks are the starting point. Given that the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) is the most widely used index (1)
- emerging and developed markets. Concerning the frontier markets (1)
- frontier markets have experienced only weak recoveries and they show poorer performances than those of emerging and developed markets. Furthermore (1)
- investing in those markets remains profitable. Indeed (1)
- it is advisable to take into consideration the specific behaviour of frontier markets (1)
- it was confirmed prior to the financial crisis of 2008 when frontier markets outperformed emerging and developed markets with a performance of 36.13 % and a Sharpe ratio of 2.03. However (1)
- monthly prices available on its database are analysed to determine and compare performances of frontier (1)
- since the financial crisis (1)
- the Index’s method of capitalization and the economic situation post-crisis. However (1)
- the comparative advantage for investors is based on a high risk-return ratio (1)
- the index examined is the MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets. The main reason is that it includes four emerging countries categorized at the border between frontier and emerging markets where many interesting investment opportunities lie. The results obtained are unexpected given the reputation of frontier markets of having high returns despite showing high volatility. In fact (1)
- the long-term growth potential and the diversification benefits are the main reasons for the push towards investment in frontier markets equities. (1)
- the risks that characterise investments in these markets and their organization (1)
- the volatility observed in the MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets Index was higher than that of the MSCI World Index but it was surprisingly lower than the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The reason for these unexpected results could be explained by the low liquidity (1)
- which justifies investing in higher risk and less liquid restricted markets rather than in emerging and developed markets. In order to establish this ratio (1) More Less