{"id":643758,"date":"2013-02-25T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/globalinvesting\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2013-02-25T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:24:29","slug":"twenty-years-of-emerging-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643758","title":{"rendered":"Twenty years of emerging bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy birthday EMBI! The index group, the main benchmark for emerging market bond investors, turns 20 this year.\u00a0 When officially launched on Dec 31 1993, the world was a different place. The Mexican, Asian and Russian financial crises were still ahead, as was Argentina’s $100 billion debt default. The euro zone didn’t exist, let alone its debt crisis. Emerging debt was something only the most reckless investors dabbled in.<\/p>\n

To mark the upcoming anniversary, JPMorgan – the owner of the indices – has published some interesting data that shows how the asset class has been transformed in the past two decades.\u00a0 In 1993:
\n– The emerging debt universe was worth just $422 billion, the EMBI Global had 14 sovereign bonds in it with a market capitalisation of $112 billion.
\n– The average credit rating on the index was BB.
\n– Public debt-to-GDP was almost 100 percent back then for emerging markets, compared to 69 percent for developed markets.
\n– Forex reserves for EMBI countries stood at $116 billion
\n– Per capita annual GDP for index countries was less than $3000.
\nNow fast forward 20 years:
\n– The emerging debt universe is close to $10 trillion, there are 55 countries in the EMBIG index and the market capitalisation of the three main JPM indices has swollen to $2.7 trillion.
\n– The EMBIG has an average Baa3 credit rating (investment grade) with 62 percent of its market cap investment-grade rated.
\n– Public debt is now 34 percent of GDP on average in emerging markets, while developed world debt ratios have ballooned to 119 percent of GDP.
\n– Forex reserves for EMBIG members stand at $6.1 trillion
\n– Per capita annual income has risen 2.5 times to $7,373.<\/p>\n

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What next? The thinking at JPM seems to be that the day is not far off when a country “graduates” from the EMBI and joins the developed world.\u00a0 To be excluded from the EMBI group of indices, a country’s gross national income must exceed the bank’s “index income ceiling” (calculated using World Bank methodology) for three years in a row or have a sovereign credit rating of A3\/A- for three consecutive years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy birthday EMBI! The index group, the main benchmark for emerging market bond investors, turns 20 this year.\u00a0 When officially launched on Dec 31 1993, the world was a different place. The Mexican, Asian and Russian financial crises were still ahead, as was Argentina’s $100 billion debt default. The euro zone didn’t exist, let alone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}