Investors are stepping up withdrawals from emerging-market exchange-traded funds and shifting into Europe as concern mounts that growth is faltering in developing nations while advanced economies strengthen.
Withdrawals from U.S.-based ETFs investing in emerging-market equities and bonds totaled $11.3 billion this year, already surpassing the redemption of $8.8 billion for the whole 2013, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Funds investing in European assets added $5 billion in the first two months of 2014, compared with $18 billion full-year inflows in 2013.
Returns in emerging-market stocks this year are trailing their European peers the most since 2011 as China’s economy slowed, currencies from Turkey to South Africa tumbled while violent protests in Ukraine fueled geopolitical tension. In Europe, economic confidence increased for a ninth month in January, suggesting the scars from the ravages of the sovereign-debt crisis in 2011 are healing.
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