We expect emerging market (EM) local currency bonds to continue outperforming their hard currencycounterparts over the next eighteen months as EM interest rates remain lower than the marketgenerally anticipates and US Treasury yields rise. Our rate forecasts suggest that local currency bondswill perform well in South Africa and Russia, but that they will do poorly in Turkey and Indonesia.
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