Capital controls and the crisis in emerging markets

By Xingwang Qian and Andreas Steiner Today, we’re fortunate to have Xingwang Qian, Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Buffalo State and Andreas Steiner at University of Osnabrück as a Guest Contributors. During the current tough economic situation in the industrial world, including the US and the Euro Zone, the g

By Richard Shaw (QVM Group): Examining the MSCI emerging markets and developed markets country indexes, we found 15 countries with consistently positive total returns for 10 years.Those countries with "perfect" records are (with proxy ETFs noted):

By Simon Johnson Adair Turner, head of the UK’s Financial Supervisory Authority, has developed a flair for pushing the official conversation on banking forward. He spoke in favor of a tax on financial services, long before that was fashionable.  This idea has been picked by both the UK and US governments – and in some amended form is likely to emerge from the G20 intergovernmental summit process later this year.

By Gary Gordon: China’s manufacturing sector is contracting, Brazil’s consumers are retrenching and India’s economy is growing at the slowest pace in a decade. Is it any wonder that commentators as well as investors are abandoning the concept of “BRIC” (Brazil, Russia, India, China) funds?

By StopAlerts:These charts show the relative performance of Asian emerging market country ETFs versus both the S&P 500 ETF and the MSCI emerging markets index ETF.The ETFs considered are:

By Emerging Money:by Michael A. Gayed CFANegative sentiment on China continues to drag other emerging markets down, and will likely keep on doing so until more concrete stimulus measures are announced. It's not all doom and gloom though, as Russia, India, and Mexico can attest.

By Ron Rowland:BlackRock’s new iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Small Cap Index Fund (EEMS), introduced on August 19, has already gathered assets of more than $66 million. As its name describes, the new ETF targets small-cap stocks from emerging markets. “Small cap” is defined as the companies representing the bottom 14% of market capitalization.

By Michael Johnston:iShares, the market leader in the U.S. ETF industry, rolled out a complement to its ultra-popular MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (EEM) on Thursday.