I'd love to be able to have more information to help determine if it would make sense to put some money into EM Bonds for diversification:
-What are good resources to review long term historical trends in this space?
-For folks who have invested in EM Bonds for a while - Have you found them to pull their weight as a diversifying aspect of your portfolio? Would you recommend the use of them to others?
Thanks in advance for your knowledge and perspective!
My situation:
While reviewing SigFig's critique of my growth portfolio, I saw a recommendation which included picking up 3% on emerging market bonds. I'm open to more volatile investments, so long as they have a very strong likelihood of delivering healthy returns in the long haul- equity investments have tended to fit this model better from my POV. I have a baseline wariness of sovereign defaults as well as high management fees on overseas funds, and this is a less commonly discussed category, which gives me even more cause for wariness.
I see Vanguard has a relatively low cost offering from a few years ago or so, but I had a devil of a time locating any good data to get a sense of long term performance and defaults of the market(e.g. more than just the last 10 years). A few years of returns during a boom is something, but doesn't give me much confidence as a representative picture of what I might anticipate in broad strokes.
Submitted January 05, 2020 at 07:19PM by TheEverHumbled https://ift.tt/2QrMtms
