It could be down to events in Egypt, profit-taking, or rising inflation. But the point is simple: this week investors have lost their enthusiasm for emerging markets, especially in Asia, in a big way.
In the past seven days, investors have taken $7bn out of global emerging market funds. In Asia, only one country saw any net inflows, and even that was at a significantly lower rate than the previous 4 weeks.
The biggest outflows, according to research from EPFR and Citi, came from the big three: China, India and Indonesia. Funds left China at twice the rate of the previous week. Inflows into developed world funds, meanwhile, increased.
The $7bn figure represents the third biggest weekly EM outflow on record, beaten only by exits in March 2007, and January 2008.
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