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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--State Street Investment Management today announced plans to close and liquidate the State Street® DoubleLine® Emerging Markets Fixed Income ETF (Ticker: EMTL) based on State Street Investment Management's review of its ETF offerings. The final day for creations and redemptions in EMTL will be July 21, 2026. Trading of all shares will be suspended on its principal U.S. listing exchange, Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc., at the open of market on July 22, 2026. The ETF will cease o.
Normalizing yield curves, easing monetary policy in the U.S., and a weakening dollar are just a few macro factors that hit the bond markets in 2025. The latter carved a path for emerging market (EM) bond strength last year, giving them the “wow” factor relative to their fixed income peers.
In a previous article, we highlighted the benefits of getting international bond exposure in the context of using passive funds to achieve this level of fixed income diversification. Here, active strategies will be discussed in their application to the international bond market, which could be beneficial for further risk mitigation.
Central banks across emerging markets have reacted to elevated inflation by significantly tightening monetary policy, in some cases, well ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. After largely synchronized rate-hiking cycles across EM, monetary policies could once again begin to diverge among individual countries.
In emerging markets valuations look attractive today after the losses across financial markets early this year. PIMCO's investment process is founded upon our macroeconomic outlook and our in-house country and credit research.
Performance of emerging markets local currency bonds has been negatively impacted by the U.S. dollar's strength since mid-year, despite the higher real yields and upside growth surprises in many emerging markets. Currency returns can be volatile, and external factors can have a bigger short-term impact on an emerging markets currency (EMFX) even if relatively attractive fundamentals may provide longer-term support.
We have seen a sharp growth in the issuance of not only green bonds but also sustainability bonds and social bonds, which are closely related. When thinking about issuance outside of the corporate space, sovereigns and state-owned enterprises in Latin America are leading in that respect, with Asia closely following.
Emerging markets offer attractive alternatives to fixed income investors searching for yield amid the trillions of dollars of negative-, zero-, and low-yielding debt globally. Within emerging market hard currency investment grade bonds, we think it is prudent to be shorter duration or at least hedge the Treasury risk component, given the low yield per unit of duration today.