GCC countries now account for 7.6 per cent of the influential MSCI index after Russia's removal. Reuters
GCC countries now account for 7.6 per cent of the influential MSCI index after Russia's removal. Reuters
GCC countries now account for 7.6 per cent of the influential MSCI index after Russia's removal. Reuters
GCC countries now account for 7.6 per cent of the influential MSCI index after Russia's removal. Reuters

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Why GCC and frontier markets are more attractive now

Investors who overlooked the Gulf region are now looking at it with a new set of eyes

Simon Kitchen

March 20, 2022

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As financial shocks go, last week will go down in history.

Last Wednesday’s expulsion of Russia from the MSCI Emerging Markets Index — a benchmark for trillions of dollars in investment funds — was the coup de grace.

Russia has been usurped as the leading oil play in emerging markets by the combined markets of the GCC. For the 24 countries spanning the three regions left in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, this triggered an immediate rebalancing.

While index compilers have dropped countries from key indexes before — most recently Pakistan and Argentina in 2021 — this is usually after months of deliberation.

The speed of Russia’s removal has immediate implications — money flowing into index-tracking funds will no longer go to Russia. Instead, a higher share will go into GCC stocks.

The outcome was that GCC countries, led by Saudi Arabia, now account for 7.6 per cent of the influential index. Five years ago, the region constituted only 1.6 per cent while Russia accounted for 3.9 per cent.

Russia was removed from the MSCI Emerging Markets index last week. Bloomberg
Russia was removed from the MSCI Emerging Markets index last week. Bloomberg

The reweighting reflects a changing global financial landscape. GCC markets have become far more investor-friendly in the past five years, with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait gaining EM status even as the bar for EM entry rose.

As a group, the GCC is now one of the most exciting, dynamic emerging markets as it continues to diversify away from an energy-price driven economy.

Meanwhile, GCC dollar currency pegs free investors from worrying about foreign exchange devaluation. EM investors who previously overlooked the GCC region — too small, too rich, too commodity-dependent — are now looking at these countries with a new set of eyes.

At EFG Hermes’ fifth Virtual Investor Conference last week, three core themes emerged.

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First, the commodity conversation. Rocketing prices are triggering a cost-of-living crisis across the world, but are also creating windfalls for GCC governments that were squeezed by successive oil price collapses in 2014 and 2020.

Consumer companies in the GCC and across Frontier Emerging Markets pointed to the impact that rising inflation is having on disposable incomes, as well as the disruption that Covid-19 and now the Russia-Ukraine crisis is bringing to global supply chains.

Economies face the double whammy of corporates raising prices while interest rate rises loom large on the horizon.

For some lower-income countries, there is an immediate impact from the conflict in Eastern Europe. Take wheat, where Russia and Ukraine are, respectively, the biggest and fifth-biggest exporters in the world.

Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, receives 86 per cent of its supplies from these two countries. With Black Sea shipments currently halted, Egypt is being forced to tear up its budget assumptions for subsidies as wheat futures markets flirt with $400 a tonne.

This explains why the price of unsubsidised bread rose by 50 per cent in Egyptian shops last week.

Bangladesh and Pakistan are also major importers of food and energy, and they will struggle to finance the widening gap.

Meanwhile, GCC countries face a challenge that other countries would love to have — sticking to their plans to diversify their economies away from oil, rather than spending this year’s oil windfall.

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A woman cries near a building damaged by shelling in Kyiv as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues. EPA
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A satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the damage from a Russian strike on Lviv's international airport. AP
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Destroyed cars hit by shelling in Kyiv. EPA
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A woman stands in her home after her building was damaged by shelling in Kyiv. EPA
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A pedestrian looks at a cloud of smoke rising after an explosion in Lviv. AP
General view of a street behind a barricade in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa. EPA
General view of a street behind a barricade in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa. EPA
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US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks with US troops at an army training range in Bulgaria. AP
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Empty strollers are seen outside the Lviv city council building during an action to highlight the number of children killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. AFP
Children play on the stage of the theatre of the Ukrainian House where a shelter for refugees has been installed in Przemysl, south-eastern Poland. AFP
Children play on the stage of the theatre of the Ukrainian House where a shelter for refugees has been installed in Przemysl, south-eastern Poland. AFP
Smoke is seen above buildings close to the airport in Lviv, Ukraine. Lviv's mayor said the airport was not hit, but an area nearby. Getty Images
Smoke is seen above buildings close to the airport in Lviv, Ukraine. Lviv's mayor said the airport was not hit, but an area nearby. Getty Images
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Ukrainian firefighters try to extinguish a blaze at a warehouse after a bombing in Kyiv. AP Photo
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy presents flowers to Kateryna Vlasenko, 16 - who was injured as she fled with her family from the town of Vorzel - at a hospital in Kyiv. Reuters
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Igor, a 40 year-old Ukranian soldier, embraces his wife in front of his military basement in the centre of Odesa. AFP
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Ukrainian refugees arrive at the reception centre near Palanca Village, about 3 kilometres from the Moldova-Ukraine border. EPA
Broken windows after parts of a Russian missile, shot down by Ukrainian air defences, hit an apartment block in Kyiv. AP
Broken windows after parts of a Russian missile, shot down by Ukrainian air defences, hit an apartment block in Kyiv. AP
People clear debris outside a medical centre damaged by the same Russian missile after it was intercepted. AP
People clear debris outside a medical centre damaged by the same Russian missile after it was intercepted. AP
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A police officer looks through the window of a damaged flat in Kyiv. One person was killed and three injured when debris from a downed rocket hit an apartment in the Ukrainian capital. AFP
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Firemen working in the rubble after extensive damage in Kyiv. AFP
Family members and comrades of Ivan Skrypny, who was killed in a rocket attack on a military base in Yavoriv, pay their last respects at his memorial service in Lviv, Ukraine. Reuters
Family members and comrades of Ivan Skrypny, who was killed in a rocket attack on a military base in Yavoriv, pay their last respects at his memorial service in Lviv, Ukraine. Reuters
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A man feels the despair as his home was hit by debris from a downed rocket in Kyiv. Russian troops trying to encircle the capital have launched early morning strikes on the city for several successive days. AFP
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UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed shakes hands with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a news conference following their talks in Moscow. Reuters
The Donetsk Regional Theatre of Drama, which was destroyed by an air strike during Russia's military onslaught in Mariupol, Ukraine. Reuters
The Donetsk Regional Theatre of Drama, which was destroyed by an air strike during Russia's military onslaught in Mariupol, Ukraine. Reuters
A satellite image of the theatre before the bombing, with the word 'children' written in Russian in large white letters on the pavement in front of and behind the building. Reuters
A satellite image of the theatre before the bombing, with the word 'children' written in Russian in large white letters on the pavement in front of and behind the building. Reuters
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A Ukrainian woman and her family in a taxi displaying the colours of the Ukrainian flag upon arriving in Madrid with a group of Spanish taxi drivers who drove to Poland to support the mass evacuation of refugees. Reuters
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A sanitised train arrives in Kielce, Poland, carrying children with oncological diseases who fled Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Reuters
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A man outside a damaged housing block after it was hit by debris from a downed rocket in Kyiv. AFP
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A residential building damaged by a blast wave at the scene where debris from a downed rocket hit a nearby apartment block in Kyiv. AFP
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Evacuees from Mariupol are seen upon arrival at the car park of a shopping centre on the outskirts of the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is now a registration centre for displaced people. AFP
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Legislators applaud Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine's president, after an address via video link at the Bundestag in Berlin. Bloomberg

GCC countries also face the challenge of managing energy supply at a time of political uncertainty — they want to keep the Opec+ system alive, but they do not want oil prices to rise to levels where demand is destroyed.

Costlier crude is a double-edged sword for many frontier emerging markets outside the GCC. Headline inflation is rising, affecting food and fuel prices globally, but healthier GCC economies can mean foreign workers in the Gulf sending more money back to cities and villages in Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

What was also evident to investors are the bright growth prospects in Africa. The continent’s growth story is not limited to commodities, but in many cases the increases in prices will help.

The continent has more than one quarter of the world’s arable land. Eleven of its countries rank among the top 10 sources for at least one major mineral. Properly harnessed, the money from a commodity price boom can feed longer growing trends of millions of Africans entering the consumer goods market, where opportunities are being created in many sectors from banking to telecoms.

Thirdly, world events are creating new trade routes and opportunities for services exporters in many countries.

Driven by its strong education base, Ukraine is well-known in Europe as a technology powerhouse and a key provider of information technology outsourcing services. Russia and Belarus have also been important centres for similar industries.

For many years, entrepreneurs opening technology businesses looked no further than Ukraine, Russia and Belarus for their back and middle office support infrastructure.

The Russia-Ukraine crisis has forced businesses to pivot away from these mainstays of the global IT services market, creating opportunities for companies in Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan and Vietnam among others.

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index has reflected major shifts in the world economy since it was launched in January 2001.

In recent years, the GCC economies have come of age, displacing Russia, an index veteran, as the best play on rising oil prices. Opportunities prevail even when markets are in turmoil.

Simon Kitchen is managing director and head of strategy at EFG Hermes Research

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