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Many but not all of the frontier countries are richly endowed with commodities.
Despite a shift in sentiment towards the emerging markets, people are not necessarily allocating a greater proportion of their assets in favour of these frontier countries.
And if they already own foreign or emerging-markets funds, they probably have exposure to the BRICs and several other emerging and frontier countries, he said.
outperformed its index by 5.39 percentage points last year, while the PowerShares MENA Frontier Countries Portfolio underperformed its benchmark by 4.41 percentage points.
Even if you believe that frontier countries will grow far faster than the developed world, you have to deal with the practicalities, including cost, of investing in them, he said.
Some frontier countries remain more vulnerable to corruption and political crises than the typical developed market, said Darrell S. Zechman, a Chicago-based consultant with Towers Watson Investment Services.
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