What excites us in frontier markets?

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Africa has been a noisy neighbourhood over the past decade. Yet, the returns that one has been able to achieve by investing appropriately in the asset class have yielded benefit. In this podcast, we speak to head of Global Frontier Markets Peter Leger about navigating through a number of currency crises, why we remain excited about mobile money and our role as responsible investors in these nascent markets.

3 Oct 2018 English South Africa Investing · Business

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