Let’s start reviewing the characteristics and differences between an investment in an emerging market and one in a developed market. Today, we will look at this topic in terms of risk of losses. This is an easy win for the developed markets clearly. There is in fact no doubt that investing in a developed market like the US one involved less risks than investing in an emerging or frontier market. There are a multitude of reasons that can explain this but let's focus on the two

Over the next blog entries we will review the characteristics and differences between an investment in an emerging market and one in a developed market. We will focus on Vietnam since this the market we believe is the most interesting to invest in at the present time and that we currently advise on. All the analysis will be done on an independent investor point of view. We will review these differences in terms of risks of losses, in terms of returns, in terms of administrati

Vietnam is sometimes viewed as being an emerging market, but technically, it is still officially classified as a Frontier market. A frontier market is different from an emerging market. In the 1990s, the International Finance Corporation came up with the term ‘Frontier Market’ that allowed to differentiate the concepts of emerging and frontier markets. To put it simply, a frontier market is a type of developing country that is more developed than the least developing countrie

Mainly because of lack of information available but also due to other factors such as cultural differences, there is no doubt that investing in frontier markets is more complex and challenging than investing in developed markets. Hence, individual investors investing in frontier markets face a double challenge: avoiding the common mistakes of individual investors in the stock markets while facing a frontier market where performing is more complex and requires more skills. #I