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Mining News Pro - BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said that he believes emerging markets are on a downward slide as he sees strong macro trends weighing on the asset class.
“I am pretty bearish on the emerging world,” Fink said at an online event hosted by the Institute of International Finance.
He said the COVID-19 pandemic is taxing emerging economies and their health systems more than developed countries, deglobalization is hurting the commodity-dependent countries and the group is more sensitive to effects of climate change.
“When we talk about climate change, and we think that’s a big issue and a reallocation of capital,” Fink said, “part of that reallocation of capital is movement out of the emerging world.”
Outside these global macro trends, a lack of trust in EM governments is further hurting the asset class, the head of BlackRock said.
“We’re seeing a flip-flop of governments.
“One government could raise a lot of debt, new government comes in and (there’s) different behaviors, different attitudes, and it doesn’t create any confidence for the debt holders,” Fink said.
“The risk premium that you’re going to have to demand to invest in the emerging markets is growing persistently.”
Following a sharp spike in March as COVID-19-related shutdowns spread all over the world, the rolling-year average premium demanded to hold EM debt rose to its highest in more than a decade.
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager with almost $8 trillion under management.
Fink added that many emerging countries are going to have to restructure their debt and their leaders are not aware of who is holding the debt and how that affects a restructuring.
“I have had three or four conversations with leaders of different emerging countries . . . it’s like I’m telling them some facts from outer space,” Fink said.
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