Argentina: From Frontier To Emerging Market
(WorldNews Argentina)

Since the beginning of the year and after the post-election sell-off, emerging markets have been posting significantly higher returns than developed markets. Nevertheless, with higher yields, investors should expect higher risks in the form of additional political instability, currency risk, and higher illiquidity. Frontier markets are a category of emerging markets in countries that don`t qualify as emerging markets because of their smaller size. Frontier markets are even riskier and more illiquid than emerging markets. Technically, emerging and frontier markets can be compared to large-cap and small-cap companies respectively. MSCI classifies the following countries as frontier markets:...