Shaftan reaffirms her commitment to Russia as rising oil price drives growth

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Elena Shaftan is the head of Jupiter's emerging European team and manager of the £626m Emerging European Opportunities fund with Ingrid Kukuljan. Here she explains her fund positioning, why she does not subscribe to the ‘bigger fool' theory, and why the Russian market is not for tourists.

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