How we plan to become the best EM boutique in the world

CIO Plamen Monovski tells Katie Holliday about his firm's ‘Indiana Jones' approach to investing and his ambitious plans to grow the business.

If you want to find real opportunity, go where others are not. This is the ethos of Plamen Monovski, chief investment officer and president of Renaissance Asset Managers, who argues whatever is on the front page of the finance publications will not make you money. With over 15 years’ experience working in emerging markets, he has the credibility to make such bold statements. Monovski worked at BlackRock for 12 years as co-manager of the firm’s BGF Emerging Europe fund, he then joined Renaissance Asset Managers as CIO and president in 2010. “If you study emerging markets for a long tim...