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Comment: Emerging markets and life after the global storm

Raquel Pichardo-Allison

07 December 2009 •

As 2009 winds down, it's refreshing to see pension funds beginning to put risk back on the table, tentative as they may be.

Investors began the year taking a wait and see approach to the markets and kept their fingers crossed that the March lows were just that. But investors began moving again, and when they did, th...

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