Webinar replay – EM equities: from lost decade to essential diversifier?

Emerging market equities have experienced a dynamic start to 2026, driven by shifting macroeconomic conditions, rising geopolitical tensions, and evolving policy and reform agendas across regions. While AI and technology remain powerful growth drivers, the investment case for emerging markets extends well beyond tech alone, encompassing changing consumption patterns, investment in machinery and equipment including defense, energy security, and new fiscal policy measures. At the same time, key emerging market players are increasingly taking cues from developed markets, where regulators, governments, and corporations are placing greater emphasis on shareholder value and capital discipline.

In this webinar, we explored the key forces influencing emerging markets today—and what these developments could mean for investors.

Key insights for investors:

• How changing consumption patterns in China, together with the government’s “anti involution” policies, may stabilize pricing dynamics and improve corporate profitability across both old and new economy sectors.
• The role of AI driven demand and accelerating hyperscaler capital expenditure, alongside evolving energy security and oil and gas supply dynamics in North Asia.
• What is driving concerns around private credit, and why fundamentals in public credit look very different
• How rising industrial capital expenditures, corporate governance and capital markets reforms are shaping investor sentiment, diversification benefits, and where compelling emerging market equity opportunities may lie.