Mattias Martinsson (Tundra Fonder AB) about Frontier Markets
Mattias Martinsson is Chief Investment Officer and partner of Tundra Fonder AB explains what is particular about Frontier Markets
Mattias Martinsson is Chief Investment Officer and partner of Tundra Fonder AB explains what is particular about Frontier Markets
…"We focus entirely on what we call the next generation of emerging markets, what we call the frontier markets…"
ABR and OpenFunds announce the successful seeding of the first of a series of UCITS V fund managed by ABR.
Luxx London Investment -Luxx – and OpenFunds Investment Services – OpenFunds -, announced today that they have completed a final closing for The London Heritage Fund (the ‘Fund’) with total investor commitments of 33.45m GBP.
For most investors, Pakistan is not an investment destination being considered in their investment process. But soon MSCI, the biggest index provider globally, may bring that to a sudden change. On June 14th, MSCI will announce its decision whether to upgrade Pakistan from the current frontier market classification to emerging market classification or not. In the case of a positive decision, emerging markets funds with an estimated 40x the capital of frontier funds will be forced to have a look at the 180 million population nation on the border between Asia and the Middle East.
Frontier Markets have a number of attractive features for investors, particular in the current market environment of slow growth in all major economies, rich equities and bonds and low bank deposit interest rates. But private and institutional investors tend to think of Frontier Markets as unexplored. The economies of these countries are generally in earlier stages of economic development, and their capital markets less mature than Emerging Markets.
On 1 March 2015, the transitional period for distributors and foreign funds distributed in Switzerland to become compliant with new regulation expired. Participants are working out how best to navigate and adapt to the new distribution regulatory framework. OpenFunds thoughts it would help by putting together a Q&A covering the most-asked questions about regulatory framework and bodies.
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