$9bn
US$ 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: The Physical World Always Wins
<p>Corn prices doubled between 2007-2008 driven by a variety of factors: droughts, demand, and new uses (ethanol). But the primary culprit was an influx of speculator capital into commodities. </p>
13 April 2026
Emerging markets have the minerals. Capital has to catch up.
<p>Emerging markets dominate the world's critical mineral reserves. Developing these resources requires capital, and private credit has a big part to play.</p>
13 April 2026
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
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>