George Robinson: My key lessons from investing in EMs and start-ups

Founding partner of Sloane Robinson

George Robinson, founding partner of emerging markets specialist Sloane Robinson, talks about why he tends to 'ignore' 80% of the market in emerging countries and how his investments in specialist biotech and healthcare university start-ups via his EIS fund have helped him refine his investment style

There can be no doubting George Robinson's appetite for putting money into the cutting edge of investment. After spending the early years of his career working in Asia, he returned to the UK to unite with Hugh Sloane to launch one of the UK's pioneering emerging markets fund groups in 1993 - Sloane Robinson. Since 2004 he has also run the company's emerging markets long/short equity fund. While Sloane Robinson is his day job, Robinson has also forged a reputation as one of the foremost investors in university spin-outs. He runs Oxford Investment Consultants, which advises the inves...