While I prefer to do my own analysis when it comes to finance and investments, one financial blogger I respect highly is Mr. Tiho from Shortsideoflong.com. I am reposting his latest post here as it brings out some interesting points about Emerging markets which is my preferred component in my personal portfolio too based on the low valuations and decent dividend yields. So, at the risk of promoting personal and confirmation biases, I reproduce the content from his original post for your reference. ____________________ By and large, the index has been trend-less for a number of years and to be quite precise, it trades at the same level it did in September 2009 (without dividends). Let us also remember that the NBER officially declared end of US recession in June of 2009. So the question is: if the world growth hasn’t been contracting (i.e. recession), why are emerging market equities still trading at ......