Richard Romer-Lee's Square Mile consultancy has poached another research analyst from Morningstar OBSR as head of risk based solutions research.
A concentration of flows among an increasingly small pool of funds is prompting buyers to turn away from the biggest players due to fears over performance, liquidity and communication.
Frontier markets delivered a positive return in January, as local ‘sticky money' stayed put in the face of heavy outflows from EMs.
AXA Framlington UK Mid Cap manager Chris St John has said now is a "good time to be cynical" as signs emerge of increasingly bullish activity in markets.
Neptune's Chris Taylor has predicted ten-fold growth in the Japanese market in the coming years, as the government is forced to push through reforms to avoid bankruptcy by 2020.