By Michael Tsang [Bloomberg] -- Emerging markets are attracting more money from initial public offerings than industrialized nations for the first time ever, a warning sign to Mark Mobius that the record rally in the shares may turn into a 20 percent decline. Faster economic growth may help China, India and Brazil produce the biggest increases in IPOs and almost double ...

BRAZIL, CHINA--AND PAKISTAN?

Mark Mobius is a legend among emerging-market investors. For more than 30 years, the 73-year-old fund manager, who oversees $33 billion spread across 35 Franklin Templeton funds, has scouted for investment opportunities in unlikely places. His U.S.-listed Templeton Emerging Markets Fundhad a 109% return as of Dec. 14, compared with 73% for the MSCI ...

OPEN FRONTIERS

Stocks in emerging Europe, the Middle East, and Africa will rise 31% by the end of 2010 as cheap valuations, fast profit growth, and higher oil prices draw investors, according to a Dec. 3 Morgan Stanley report.
Michael Wang, the company's London-based emerging-markets strategist, wrote that the gain he expects from the MSCI EM EMEA (Emerging ...

Spicy numbers make it easy to see emerging markets' allure: The average Latin American stock fund has more than doubled this year. Results are outsized anywhere you venture across the globe's emerging markets, to countries like China, Russia and Morocco. Their stocks are ...