To invest in emerging markets, go beyond indices

Economic fundamentals now suggest global investors should be overweight emerging markets versus developed ones, but to get there requires overhauling how indices are used as benchmarks. Calling this a 10-year process, today the leading benchmark providers’ indices are backward-looking and their technical specifications prevent investors from getting sufficient exposure to those markets offering the most economic growth, says Vincent Camerlynck, London-based global head of institutiona…