$9bn
US$ invested
As of 31.12.2025
Redefining emerging markets investing
<p>Our mission is to unleash the potential in emerging markets and make them accessible to investors everywhere. </p>
650+
Group employees
As of 31.12.2025
2014
Founded
100%
Employee-owned
Potential unleashed
<p>Institutional portfolios are overexposed to the familiar and underexposed to the essential. As global investors face shrinking real returns, rising volatility and geopolitical risk, emerging markets present a unique opportunity.</p>
Global emerging markets are in our name and our DNA.
<p>Atanas Bostandjiev, Founder & CEO</p>
Local presence
<p>We have had a local presence in emerging markets for over a decade, investing over $9 billion. Our experience covers a wide range of countries, sectors and asset classes, with a specialist focus on private capital to unlock the vast potential in emerging markets.</p>
Unmasking the potential
<p>Our new report, “Unmasking the potential”, surveyed over 75 institutional investors from across the globe to collect their views on emerging market (EM) private credit.</p>
Gemcast episode 11
<p>Felipe Berliner, Co-Founder and Head of Structuring at Gemcorp Capital, returns to Gemcast to unpick the cracks showing in developed market private credit – from rising concentration risk and covenant erosion to its growing overlap with public markets. He explains why recent events could mark a turning point for the asset class, where selectivity becomes non-negotiable, structuring matters again, and investors may need to look further afield for true diversification.</p>
Latest insights
Commodity Watch: Illusions of independence
A man is trapped in a vault filled with gold. He tells himself I now have enough gold to buy all the food I need. But he can’t, he is stuck in a vault.
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Similarly, the US is swimming in crude that it cannot consume because it requires (like everybody else) a set of refined petroleum products critical for everyday life. Oil imports are needed because the existing US refining system requires heavy oil which is not produced by shale.
6 April 2026
Thinking against the current: The best instrument in the toolbox
Investors can learn far more in the early-morning light of an emerging market city than they ever will from a London desk.
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Our industry has become increasingly comfortable doing things remotely. With the help of artificial intelligence, 24-hour news cycle, unlimited social media “reporting” and opinions, expertise is easy to come by these days. And with the ubiquitous use of video conferencing, the world seems to be at our fingertips. Yet for all these advances, things always look different on the ground
31 March 2026
Commodity Watch: Power Shifts with Petrodollars
<p>Commodity disruptions are not confined to physical markets. They spill over into financial ones. Supply constraints have rippled across the globe, affecting industries, sectors and economies. Will the US dollar be next? The USD sits at the centre of the commodity complex and could suffer collateral damage from Gulf War III as surpluses and resources shift and change.</p>
30 March 2026
Imbono
<p>A leading operator and provider of infrastructure and essential goods and services across emerging markets.</p>
Driving change
<p>We aim to improve access to energy, water, food and healthcare, while improving livelihoods and bridging inequalities.</p>