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There May Be Value in the Emerging Markets—If You Know Where to Look
Over the past few years, it’s been somewhat unheard-of for the MSCI Emerging Markets Index to start a year outperforming the S&P 500 Index. But so far in 2015, that’s exactly what’s happening. The...
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Attention Contrarians—Time to Look at Emerging Markets
It’s been difficult to talk about emerging markets lately. With the enormous depreciation of the Russian ruble and the steep decline in oil prices toward the end of 2014, it was hard to find the silver...
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (for Japanese Equities)
March 31 marks the end of Japan’s fiscal year, making it a very important point from which to gauge how Japanese stocks are behaving and, ultimately, whether Abenomics is having any real impact. Based...
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Fine-Tune Your Emerging Markets Exposure
As investors increasingly look to the emerging markets, investment choices have grown significantly. Rather than the standard broad-based, all-encompassing emerging market equity strategies of...
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2015: The Year of International Small Caps?
Most people who invest outside the U.S. tend to focus on well-established benchmarks such as the MSCI EAFE Index or MSCI Emerging Markets indexes. Yet both of these indexes have a particular hole:...
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Buybacks Are Becoming Popular in Japan
While European equities have certainly gotten attention in 2015, we’d also like to emphasize how well Japan’s equities have been doing. The Nikkei 225 Index was over 20,200 as of May 22, 2015, a level...
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Think You Need a Manager for International Small Caps? Think Again.
With the increased availability of index-based, passive approaches for investing in equities, investors are continually analyzing where they fit in the context of the active vs. passive debate. It is...
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Buffett’s Acquisition Rules Applied Internationally
One of our most popular blog posts in 2015 focused on characterizing the types of companies that Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway might see as interesting acquisitions targets. There was one...
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Are You Taking On Too Much Risk in Your Small-Cap Allocations?
Prior to the popularization of currency-hedged equity strategies, equity investments outside the United States included two trades: 1. The equities, which in most cases were the primary focus 2. The...
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WisdomTree’s Japan Equity Toolkit for 2015
Japan has been among the world’s best performing equity markets thus far this year.1 WisdomTree has an extensive Japanese toolkit, with 10 distinct Indexes tracked by exchange-traded funds (ETFs). In...
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Your Toolkit for Rising Rates
2015 could be the year we finally see rising interest rates in the U.S. This creates an opportunity to reassess portfolios and asset classes and evaluate how they performed during historical periods of...
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We Believe in Emerging Market Valuations
When we talk about emerging market equities today, we find that people are disappointed: there has been underperformance of late. Additionally, there remain key risks: • The U.S. Federal Reserve...
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China? Commodity Sectors? How to Know Your Emerging Markets Exposures
Emerging markets equities today present an interesting challenge—they have underperformed other global equity markets for some time, and yet there are certain risks that remain influential. Is now the...
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How to Look at Emerging Market Equities If the Fed Raises Rates
It’s difficult to think about global equity markets today without considering the “liftoff” from zero for the U.S. Federal Funds Target Rate that may happen before the end of 2015. If the Federal...
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Finding European Exposure Less Sensitive to the Chinese Currency Devaluation
Of late, concerns about China have been widespread, spurred on by stimulus measures, currency adjustments and an overall sense of a general lack of transparency. China is a big market for many European...
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Strong U.S. Dollar & Rising Rates
Two questions tend to dominate discussions of U.S. equities today: 1. Are we entering a period of rising interest rates, spurred by the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) raising short-term interest rates...
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WisdomTree’s Best- and Worst-Performing ETFs This Year
We like to periodically review the top five and bottom five performing exchange-traded funds (ETFs) at WisdomTree in order to see if interesting trends become apparent. Through August 31, 2015, we saw...
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Emerging Market Debt in Focus on Nigeria Debt Exclusion
While emerging market equities receive a lot of attention, a large amount of assets also follow emerging market local debt. J.P. Morgan estimates that approximately $200 billion is tied to its...
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Emerging Market Debt: Down but Not Out
What Took Emerging Market Debt Down in 2015? In a word, currency. If we look at the performance of the J.P. Morgan GBI-EM Global Diversified Index —an important benchmark for emerging market debt in...
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WisdomTree’s Best and Worst Equity Indexes: Third Quarter 2015
The third quarter of 2015 was difficult for equities—we saw the VIX cross 40 toward the end of August, indicating significant uncertainty. What caused this? Put simply, China and the Federal Reserve...
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