Step by Step Emerging Markets Investing: A Beginner's Guide to the Best Investments in Emerging Markets (Step by Step Investing) - Softcover

Hogue, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996232192 ISBN 13: 9780996232197

Publisher: Efficient Alpha, 2015

Synopsis

Find out why emerging market stocks need to be part of everyone's strategy for safety and returns Your world is changing. In 1992, developed countries like the United States accounted for two-thirds the global economy. By 2015, the percentage of the world economy from these countries had shrunk to less than half while Asia and Latin America had almost doubled their share of the global marketplace. Public debt of $16.3 trillion in the United States is now larger than the economy and an aging population means economic growth will continue to slow. The days of parking your money in American stocks and enjoying a stable long-term return are over. Slowing economic growth in the developed world and huge demographic advantages in developing countries are shifting the landscape for corporate profits and stock market returns. Being ahead of these changes means opening your investments to the regions and players that will benefit most over the next several decades. The average investor holds just 3% of their portfolio in emerging market stocks. That will leave them dangerously behind the game as the world changes. Those investing in multi-national U.S. companies as part of their emerging markets investment are in for a surprise. While U.S. companies book nearly 40% of their sales overseas, less than half of it is from emerging markets. The fact is that only direct investment in emerging market stocks will provide the growth you need to meet your financial goals and reduce the risk of a stagnant economic picture in the United States. But emerging market investing is far from a smooth ride to higher returns. In fact, the chronic cycle of boom and bust in emerging market stocks means a rebalancing strategy is absolutely essential to keeping your gains. Step-by-Step Emerging Markets Investing is the only book to give you a detailed process on how to position your investments for the developing change in world markets. You'll get an in-depth review of the risks and upside potential in emerging markets investing as well as the countries and funds in the theme. The last section of the book is dedicated to a step-by-step process to building your emerging markets portfolio and how to manage your investments in the least amount of time. In this book you'll learn: The seven periods of boom and bust in emerging market investments and what to look for in the future. (pg 10) The three principal risks in emerging markets and warning signs of when to get out! (pg 18) Review of the emerging market regions and 17 countries with tradable stocks (pg 24) How to build a strategy that cuts down on time you spend looking at stocks but still gives your portfolio a chance to outperform (pg 43) How to maintain your emerging markets portfolio and when to sell (pg 50) If you're ready to position your portfolio for the coming change in stocks, scroll back up and click buy now. Other Investing Books only Cover the Popular Emerging Market Stocks and Trading Strategies Most investing books on emerging market stocks only cover the most popular companies and funds in Brazil, Russia, India and China. These countries should be part of your emerging market investing strategy but are a very small part of the 17 countries available. Step-by-Step Emerging Markets Investing covers the regions and countries you need to know about before detailing how to position in the best investments to meet your needs. Scroll back up and buy the only emerging market stocks investing book to give you a complete picture of emerging market investing as well as a step-by-step investing plan. Check out the rest of the investing books in the series for simple investing strategies in bonds, emerging market stocks and dividend stocks. Each investment guide can be read on its own or as part of the series.

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About the Author

Joseph Hogue, CFA
Born and raised in Iowa, Joseph Hogue graduated from Iowa State University after serving in the Marine Corps. He worked in corporate finance and real estate before starting a career in investment analysis.

Mr. Hogue has appeared on Bloomberg as an expert in emerging market investing and has led a team of equity analysts for sell-side research. His investment analysis has been featured in advisor newsletters, institutional research reports and in the financial press. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, the gold standard for ethical and professional conduct in investment management.

From the Back Cover

Don't miss your chance to take advantage of one of the best opportunities in investing!

We're approaching the end of 2015 as I write this and emerging market stocks are getting hammered. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Fund, the benchmark for emerging market stocks, has lost more than a third of its value over the last 18 months on tumbling prices for oil and other natural resources.

But it's an old story we've heard several times over the last two decades. Investors are biased to stocks of American companies. It takes surging stock prices to convince them to tip-toe into emerging market stocks and when the slightest weakness shows, investors rush to the exits. They sell out of their stocks at exactly the wrong moment before the emerging economies rebound and the stock prices rise as quickly as they fell.

Companies in emerging markets benefit from faster economic growth and long-term trends that you won't find in the U.S. or Europe. Populations in emerging markets are younger and growing faster, providing labor market power to grow the economy. Emerging markets aren't burdened by massive debt like the U.S. and Japan.

There are few better opportunities in investing than emerging market stocks. The shares are neglected by most investors so don't carry the high price tag of American stocks. Many emerging market companies pay higher dividend yields than their developed market peers. Besides growth and cash flow, you get diversification from having some of your money tied to companies in other economic cycles for protection against the next U.S. recession.

Edition details

• Publisher: Efficient Alpha
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0996232192
• ISBN 13: 9780996232197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 58