“Investors have increasingly easy access to some of the most exotic, promising and yet challenged regions of the investing world,” Balchunas writes.
Of course, long-term investors looking for higher returns in risky frontier markets ETFs should also be prepared for volatility.
“One of the less obvious attractions of venturing into these markets is that they don’t move in lockstep (to use the jargon, they don’t correlate) with the broader stock market or even emerging markets,” Balchunas added. “That means they can offer increased portfolio diversification by zigging when other markets zag.”
iShares MSCI Frontier 100 ETF
