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Cologne - Once the go-to destination for stock market professionals, the Emerging Markets saw a surge in investment after the millennium. The stocks in Brazil, Russia, India and China outperformed those in the US and the rest of the world. However, a downturn followed from 2011 to 2024, with emerging market stocks performing much worse than those in developed countries.

As a result, investing in Emerging Markets funds yielded little return. But this changed in recent years. Instead of lagging behind, emerging market markets outperformed even the successful developed markets. On average, the Emerging Markets index grew by 20.3 percent annually. While investors could earn more from the best fund managers, they did so by an average of 24 percentage points per year.

Since the markets have been rising for four years now, ETFs on major indices have generally been a good bet. "Much more" could have been achieved, though, "if investors had put their money into the best active fund managers," explains Dennis Huchzermeier, a financial market expert at the Handelsblatt Research Institute (HRI). "They have often outperformed comparable ETFs in their investment segments."