Friday, December 11, 2009

Finding Opportunities

Notes from Mark Mobius


We are finding opportunities in almost all emerging markets. Our ground-up research process locates opportunities in countries where the political or economic outlooks may not, at first appearance, look good.


We believe commodity stocks look good because we expect the global demand for commodities to continue its long-term growth. We also favor consumer stocks. With rising per-capita income and strong demand for consumer goods and services in many emerging markets, we believe the earnings growth outlook for these stocks is positive.


The nature of markets is that there will always be booms and crashes since people tend to get either too optimistic or too pessimistic. The good news is that on average, bull markets have lasted longer than bear markets, and bull markets have gone up in percentage terms more than bear markets have gone down.


When markets are down, it is the best time to start looking.

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