BlackRock recommends dollar EM bonds

Sep 10, 2013

Emerging market hard-currency bonds generally seem a better buy now than their local-currency equivalents, says Sergio Trigo-Paz, the US fund house's head of EM debt.

Given the recent exodus of money from emerging markets and much increased EM currency volatility, certain governments are turning to hard-currency bond issues – and investors would be well advised to buy them, argued BlackRock's head of EM fixed income yesterday.

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