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The role of emerging market bonds right now

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The outlook for emerging markets

Kunal Mehta, head of the fixed income product specialism team at Vanguard, says that trying to use economic trends to drive returns within an emerging markets bond allocation is likely to mean "greater volatility", and so he prefers to look at traditional, technical factors in the bond market such as duration as a way to gain returns above those offered by the market. 

David Thorpe is investment editor at FTAdviser

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