Frontier markets opening up

Panellists debate issues concerning restricted markets becoming more accessible

This week's Conjecture debate sees our panel discussing the burgeoning area of frontier markets. Following the rapid growth of India, China and more recently Russia, the market is keen to identify their successors. Our three panellists are Ray Prasad, senior portfolio manager for Legg Mason's Batterymarch Emerging Markets Equity fund, Bryan Collings, managing partner of Hexam Capital and lead manager of Global Emerging Markets and Roberto Demartini, associate director, Standard & Poor's. What are frontier markets? Roberto Demartini (RD): Frontier funds tend to invest in markets that...