What to know as Nigeria returns to JP Morgan’s frontier bond index after 11yrs

After eleven years of absence, J.P. Morgan has included Nigeria in its new emerging markets index, assigning a 7.4 per cent weighting to the West African nation. The index, which tracks local-currency government bonds across the frontier — also known as the Government Bond Index–Emerging Markets Edge (GBI-EM Edge) — is expected to be launched […]