What next for emerging market dollar-denominated bonds?

Dollar-denominated emerging market (EM) government bonds fared badly in 2013. The JP Morgan EMBI+ returned around minus 8%, which was the second worst annual performance since 1998. While we do not expect this year to be as disappointing, we doubt it will be a good vintage either.

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