Sloane Robinson co-founder: Growth drivers in China are still very strong

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George Robinson, founding partner of emerging markets specialist Sloane Robinson, is optimistic about the "very strong" fundamental growth drivers in China, despite widespread concerns about the country's economic slowdown.

Robinson (pictured) founded the firm in 1993 with partner Hugh Sloane and has acted as portfolio manager since 2004. The group manages a range of EM-focused mandates, from an investment trust to hedge funds and segregated mandates. Speaking to Investment Week, Robinson said: "Despite all the macro worries that we have, the fundamental growth drivers in China are very strong. "You have got a billion people whose living standards are improving all the time, and they can afford things they could not before. So you get very high growth rates in a vast range of things, whether it is the in...