The Middle East, Eastern Europe, Mexico and Overcoming Hesitation.
August 21, 2013
Hosted by Gavin Graham
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Again on Wednesday August 21, fund managers, analysts and journalists share their insights with Gavin to help you become more knowledgeable about emerging and frontier markets investing. The tragedy of Egypt dominates headlines and Montasser Khelifi, Senior Manager, Global Markets at Quantum Investment Bank Ltd. in Dubai, looks at its effect on other stock markets and at the United Arab Emirates’ continued role as safe haven. John Derrick, Portfolio Manager at U. S Global Investors looks into some former Soviet bloc Eastern European countries. Rich Gula, president of the Argyle Companies takes a long-range look at the possible impact on investments in Mexico of the next American election and psychologist Ron Thiessen looks at reasons why we hesitate to invest in distant countries. We also hope to have a report on the end of the recession in Europe and which European frontier markets stand to benefit. This edition is produced by Al Emid. For inquiries write to financialnews@alemid.com
Emerging and Frontier Markets Investing with Gavin Graham
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Emerging and Frontier Markets Investing with Gavin Graham addresses the increasing interest in these markets by meshing Graham’s knowledge of them with current news developments, trends and the insights of expert guests. In fact, the expertise of our guests further demonstrates the seriousness of our approach. They include veteran Wall Street veteran money managers, experienced journalists with first-hand observations and analysts discussing emerging and frontier market developments. Our program comes to investors worried about low domestic returns and those who are aware of the growth and importance of emerging and frontier markets but unclear about the exact opportunities.
Gavin Graham
Gavin Graham has managed money for some of the largest banks and fund management companies in the world over the last thirty years and has worked in London, Hong Kong, San Francisco and Toronto. Having started in the City of London (the UK’s financial core) in 1979, he moved to Hong Kong in 1988, where his roles included that of Senior Investment Officer of Citigroup Global Asset Management (Asia) and Chief investment Officer for Connaught Investments Ltd. After moving to Toronto in 1999, he was Senior Investment Officer for Guardian Group of Funds in Toronto and latterly Director of Investments for Bank of Montreal Asset Management until 2010. He is now president of Graham investment Strategy Ltd and a frequent guest on Canada's Business News Network, the CBC and Toronto’s CP24, and quoted by the Canadian Press, Reuters and Bloomberg. Along with program producer Al Emid, Gavin is co-author of Investing in Frontier Markets: Opportunity Risk and Role in an Investment Portfolio, and of another upcoming book on frontier markets investing.
