It is time for the emerging markets to come in from the cold

FILE PHOTO: Labourers work at a garment assembly line of Thanh Cong textile, garment, investment and trading company in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam July 9, 2019. Picture taken July 9, 2019. REUTERS/Yen Duong/File Photo/File Photo

It’s been a long while coming, but the quaintly monikered emerging-market tab might finally be nearing its end – at least for the investment world.

Amundi SA, Europe’s biggest fund manager, has dealt a much-needed blow to the segregation of countries supposedly requiring totally different approaches.