From Tariffs to Tight Spreads: 2025 in Review for Emerging Markets

Maria Jose Alvarez, Client Success Manager at Tellimer, joins CEO Duncan Wales for a special year-in-review episode, revisiting what the team got right — and less right — in their 2025 emerging markets outlook. They unpack the impact of Trump’s second term and “Liberation Day” tariffs, the weaker US dollar and its outsized boost to EM local debt, hard currency bonds and equities, and why frontier markets like Vietnam and Indonesia quietly benefited from trade re-routing. The conversation also covers a more complicated-than-expected geopolitical backdrop, the absence of new sovereign defaults, the role of elections in shaping policy credibility, and why local rates, idiosyncratic restructurings and selected high-yield stories remain central to the EM opportunity set going into 2026.The Emerging Markets Podcast by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tellimer⁠⁠⁠ – Emerging Markets, Connected. Check out the full Tellimer offering ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. To get access to our top picks for 2026, please contact [email protected] Emerging Markets Podcast dives into a range of topics in the emerging and frontier market world including investment themes, debt restructuring, elections, and geopolitical tensions.DISCLAIMERThis podcast is provided for information purposes and represents the personal opinions of the speakers. It is not an offer or solicitation for investment in any securities, nor should it be regarded as investment advice. Tellimer Technologies Limited does not offer or provide advice and no mention of a particular security in this podcast constitutes a recommendation to buy, sell or hold that or any security, portfolio of securities, or enter any transaction or investment strategy. Nor is any such mention an indication that any investment is suitable for any specific person.For more information, please visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tellimer.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.