Snapshot · Excess Returns
Between 2020 and 2025, the MSCI EM Quality and Growth sub-indices diverged in performance direction in 4 out of 5 years, versus only 1 out of 8 years from 2013 to 2020.
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For most of 2013–2020, quality and growth moved together in EM. Since 2020, cyclical and physical-world companies have dominated while quality stocks lag. In 2025 the gap reached 20 percentage points — the widest ever.
In 2025, there was a 20 percentage point relative performance gap between the MSCI EM Quality and Growth sub-indices.
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