Political discontent 'fails to dampen investment opportunities in emerging markets

Despite last year being characterised by political uprisings across the Arabian peninsula - with protests and revolutions in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya - global emerging markets continue to offer sterling investment opportunities.

That is according to the Association of Investment Companies, which notes that global emerging markets continue to offer significant long-term growth, even though there was a slight dip last year.

Surveying investment managers to ascertain the prospects across these markets, it concluded that they continue to outperform average investment company performance over three, five and ten year time-frames.

In the past decade, the average company in this sector has increased by 417 per cent, it notes.

"It's been a difficult year for the Global Emerging Markets sector, but over the longer-term the performance figures are exceptional," said Annabel Brodie-Smith, communications director at the AIC.

"However, this is a diverse sector, with some companies focusing on frontier markets, whilst others take a broader emerging markets approach where exposure to frontier markets may be relatively low."

She urged investors to ensure they do the necessary research and seek financial advice before taking the plunge.

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