<p style="margin-left: 0" data-pasted="true"><strong>London, 28 October 2026 –</strong> Gemcorp Capital, the asset management arm of the Gemcorp Group, today announced that Mariya Gancheva has joined the firm as Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Emerging Markets Distressed &amp; Special Situations Credit.</p><p style="margin-left: 0">Mariya will seek to identify and discover mispriced risk across emerging markets public credit, including sovereign and corporate bonds, with a particular focus on distressed and special situations. She will lead the research process behind the strategy, combining top-down macro and sovereign analysis with Gemcorp’s deep emerging markets expertise in public policy, economic fundamentals, and financing dynamics that ultimately drive credit outcomes.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left: 0">Mariya brings more than 20 years of experience in emerging markets credit investing and strategy. Prior to joining Gemcorp, she was Head of Emerging Market Distressed Credit at Morgan Stanley and Head of Emerging Market Credit Trading Strategy at HSBC. She has also held investment and research roles at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, Merrill Lynch, and Fitch Ratings.</p><p style="margin-left: 0"><strong>Parvoleta Shtereva, Chief Investment Officer at Gemcorp Capital, said:</strong> <em>“Mariya pairs rigorous, cycle-tested research with the conviction to act. Her appointment is an important step as we build Gemcorp into the leading name in emerging markets investing, across both public markets and private credit.”</em></p><p style="margin-left: 0"><strong>Mariya Gancheva said:</strong> <em>“The best opportunities in emerging markets credit are often the ones the market has written off. Finding them takes patient research, local insight, and a willingness to look past consensus. Capturing them takes a firm that can move quickly and be decisive. Gemcorp’s on-the-ground presence and its reach across public and private markets offer both, and I’m excited to build on the platform Parvoleta and the team have created.”</em></p>