$9bn
US$ 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>
From conviction to capital
<p>Our latest report, “From conviction to capital”, draws on the views of 250 investment decision-makers across 22 countries to collect their views on emerging market (EM) private credit.</p>
Gemcast episode 14
<p>As investors face a crowded developed market, Felipe Berliner, Co-Founder and Head of Structuring, and Brad McKee, Head of Private Credit, unpack what our latest <span class="acronym-highlight" data-pasted="true">EM</span> Private Credit study reveals about shifting investor intentions and growing interest in emerging market allocations.</p>
Latest insights
Commodity Watch: The Quiet Power of Diesel
<p>In the Book of Secrets, Al-Razi, a 10th-century Baghdad-based chemist and physician outlined how to distil crude into usable fuel. His method was lab-based and small-scale. As long as wood, coal and whale oil remained cheap and available, no one took it to scale.</p>
27 July 2026
Commodity Watch: Small Markets, Big Consequences
<p>In Poor Richard’s Almanack, Ben Franklin touched on the “horseshoe parable” where a kingdom is lost for want of a horseshoe nail. The parable is at times cited as an example of butterfly effects, but it also highlights how small fracture points can lead to dire results.</p>
22 July 2026
Commodity Watch: Lending Through the Ages
<p>Clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia were used to record the terms of loans. The first recorded instance of such a loan in ~2500 BCE centred on a long-standing dispute between two city-states over leased land, missed payments and destroyed collateral, which ultimately led to war and the first recorded calculation of compound interest.</p>
13 July 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>