Post-financial crisis: Where did your money work the hardest?
8 Aug 17
This Wednesday (9 August) marks 10 years since the global financial crisis began, the morning BNP Paribas finally halted redemptions from funds containing now-infamous CDO instruments. We take a look at six sectors to see where you would have been best placed to invest in the decade that followed.
Emerging markets have experienced something of a revival in recent years, with flows steadily on the up, but in the depths of the financial crisis it looked an unlikely proposition.
Global Emerging Markets sank to lows of -38.73% in October 2008, but by August of this year the sector was posting a turnaround with returns over the 10 years totting up to 82.73%.
The best performing fund in the sector over the decade was Aberdeen’s Emerging Market Equity Fund which returned 168.86%, closely followed by Baillie Gifford’s Emerging Markets Growth Fund and Emerging Markets Leading Companies Fund.
The Baillie Gifford funds returned 134.57% and 113.96% respectively over the 10 years.
However, the worst performing during the period was the Templeton Global Emerging Market fund which returned just 21.18% in a decade.
