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Emerging market local currency bonds have climbed toward 20% over the past year, outpacing hard currency peers as the U.S. dollar weakens. Christopher Gannatti and Jonathan Flynn explain why this shift may signal a turning point for the asset class and make the case for an active approach like the WisdomTree Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund (ELD) to capture the new leadership.
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Emerging market local debt is up nearly 22% since the start of 2025, driven by a weaker dollar and improving fundamentals. Behnood Noei explains how the WisdomTree Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund’s active positioning and supportive central bank dynamics could help sustain performance into 2026.
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When we first launched the WisdomTree Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund (ELD) eight years ago, we opted for a structured approach to portfolio management that was anchored by macro fundamentals but dynamic enough to evolve with changes in the market. Recently, we changed the way weights are assigned across ELD’s tiering structure.
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After a phenomenal 2017, the last eight months have been painful for emerging market investors. However, despite this period of negative performance, we believe this year’s downdraft could lead to opportunity.
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As geopolitics shakes investor confidence, emerging market assets have come under pressure. In our view, this move could present a unique buying opportunity for investors looking to manage their interest rate risk while enhancing the income profile of their core bond portfolio.
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Following the U.S. election, most of the attention in the fixed income arena seemed to be paid to rate developments here at home, as bond investors found it increasingly difficult not to focus on the twin pillars of domestic policy (monetary and fiscal) creating a more challenging domestic fixed income setting in 2017. Obviously, such policy considerations can have global ramifications as well, so we thought it would be useful to provide some updated thoughts on what has been “emerging” thus far. 
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Over the last 11 years, the three-month investment window from February 1 through April 30 has, on average, produced the strongest returns for EM assets, in particular EM local debt and EM equities, and generated the fewest and the smallest shortfalls.
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One of the key themes dominating the exchange-traded fund industry flows over the last 12 months has been the meteoric rise in assets of minimum-volatility porfolios. For emerging markets, the single largest driver of volatility over the last several years has been the dramatic decline of foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar.
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While there is no question that emerging market currencies can be volatile and difficult to predict, the bonds themselves could have some attractive valuation characteristics. So how do we capitalize on this potential?
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While emerging market equities receive a lot of attention, a large amount of assets also follow emerging market local debt. J.P. Morgan estimates that approximately $200 billion is tied to its...
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While we remain firm believers in the long-term potential of emerging markets (EM), the past several years have been difficult due to increasing volatility and secular headwinds from a strong U.S. dollar. In our view, a bullish dollar position against a broad-based basket of developed and emerging market currencies provides a powerful option for managing currency risk in a portfolio of emerging market assets.
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As a result of a recent decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the debate over transparency in actively managed exchange-traded products has splashed back into the headlines.
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