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 Emerging markets most desired investment areaEmerging markets is the investing area to which investors are most eager to gain exposure through a protected investment, according to research from Barclays Wealth. In a recent survey of 742 client, Barclays wealthiness found that emerging markets was the underlying investment area to which investors were keenest to gain exposure without putt their working capital at risk. Winning a 17.3 per cent share of the overall vote, emerging markets proved the most popular investment sector with the more established areas of Europe (16 per cent), UK (14.1 per cent) and place (16.6 per cent) slightly behind. The balance was made up of trade goods (10.9 per cent), US (10.5 per cent), Eastern Europe (8.6 per cent) and Latin United States (6.1 per cent). Colin dickey, director, Barclays Wealth, said: "Emerging markets is clearly a key area for protected investment buyers and came out significantly ahead of a figure of more mainstream investment options. This suggests investors want exposure to the high returns emerging marketplace has the potentiality to deliver but remain wary of the area's volatility and diverseness. "Our Emerging Markets Optimiser investment is designed to auto-manage risk, gift investors a smoothed return in add-on to the comfortableness of knowing their initial capital will be returned if held to adulthood. There is a lot of marketplace commentary about the use of volatility to manage investment risk, with emerging markets proving an ideal investing area in which to use this technique, in specific with working capital protection. The research shows there is real demand for this kind of investing and we hope it continues to be as popular as it has been so far." |