Más de 660 fondos invertían en acciones latinoamericanas en 2015. Hoy quedan apenas 226. El prolongado declive refleja una región con poco crecimiento, innovación y nuevas empresas.

More than 400 equity funds have disappeared and IPOs are on ice. And that was before Lula’s reelection sparked a rout in Brazilian stocks.

Los fuertes rallies desatados por elecciones en Latinoamérica comienzan a mostrar grietas, mientras inversionistas evalúan si seguir apostando por la región o asegurar ganancias.

The searing financial-market rallies unleashed by elections across Latin America are beginning to show signs of cracks — sowing doubts among money managers over whether to keep pushing stocks and currencies even higher or lock in profits as campaign promises start colliding with the difficulty of governing.

Emerging-market investors from Aegon USA Investment Management to JPMorgan Asset Management are dialing back riskier bond bets as the deepening selloff in global credit markets starts to derail a stellar run for debt in the developing world.

Global investors are tiptoeing back into Indonesian markets after the turmoil witnessed earlier this year, drawn by a striking rebound in local assets as policymakers stepped in to restore stability.

Persistent inflation worries and currency swings are pushing emerging-market investors to adjust bets in an $886 billion asset class that’s been delivering outsize returns for more than a year.

A growing number of investors from the US to South Korea are using leveraged exchange-traded funds for long-term investing, a far cry from the day trading they were designed for.

A record inflow hit the largest US-listed South Korea exchange-traded fund, as investors seeking exposure to SK Hynix Inc. piled into the ETF as a proxy at a time when the chipmaker’s new American depositary receipts trade at a substantial premium to its local shares.

Investors are rotating beyond AI winners in emerging markets, where just three technology stocks worth $4.4 trillion drive an outsized share of returns.

For more than a decade, investors could treat the two biggest emerging-market exchange-traded funds as almost interchangeable.

Large asset managers are rolling out a wave of actively managed emerging-market ETFs, pitching them as alternatives to benchmarks increasingly dominated by AI stocks.

The largest US-listed exchange-traded funds tracking single Asian countries from India to Taiwan suffered record outflows in March, just ahead of a massive rebound in the region’s equities on the first day of April.

In Hwaseong, about an hour south of Seoul, Park Eun-hye has been staying up well past midnight to load up on risky bets on South Korean stocks.

The war in Iran has dealt a blow to one of Wall Street’s favorite trades — emerging markets.

Investors kept putting money into exchange-traded funds that invest in emerging-markets this week even as markets convulsed, indicating confidence that the war in the Middle East won’t roil risk assets for long.

Arif Joshi, the former co-head of emerging-market debt at Lazard Asset Management, is joining Bramshill Investments LLC to help launch a hedge fund focused on opportunities across the developing world.

The largest actively-managed exchange-traded fund tracking emerging equities saw a surge in inflows after the Supreme Court’s strikedown of President Trump’s global tariffs, highlighting renewed demand for risk assets.

Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller’s investment firm amassed a position in the largest exchange-traded fund tracking Brazilian stocks just before a sharp rally swept through that market in January.

A BlackRock Inc. fund packed with South Korean chipmakers pulled in its biggest inflow on record on Wednesday as investors doubled down on Asia’s semiconductor rally.