Good turnout for the first Business Hour of 2012!

BankInvest's first Business Hour this year took place on 29 March at the old cinéma Utopia in the centre of Luxembourg. 20 participants including the Danish Ambassador to Luxembourg, Louise Bang Jespersen, joined and showed great interest in Senior Portfolio Manager Hans-Henrik Skov's presentation about BI SICAV - New Emerging Markets Equities and the Frontier Markets.

While comfortably seated in the cinema chairs, the audience was taken on a journey through the investment universe as Hans-Henrik Skov shared puzzling facts about the demography, productivity and trends in countries like Nigeria, Georgia and Vietnam. In December 2011, Skov travelled to Egypt with Senior Portfolio Manager James Bannan where they met with the Muslim Brotherhood to discuss the political situation in Egypt, and this story raised a lot of interest and questions amongst the audience. Hans-Henrik Skov also talked about the great performance of the sub-fund and why it is worth looking into investing in these markets despite the fact that they are off the radar for most investors.

The evening finished off with a short reception where people got the chance to discuss in more details with Hans-Henrik Skov and the rest of the BankInvest representatives. All participants left with a cinema voucher valid for a year.

Local press: Frontier markets - the new emerging markets? 
(Luxemburger Wort, 30 March 2012)

The entire BankInvest team was very pleased with the interest in the event and look forward to another successful one in June. If you would like to know more about the upcoming Business Hour entitled Prosperity for all - Investment and growth opportunities in the LATAM countries, please send an e-mail to luxembourg@bankinvest.com. Please note that our events are for institutional investors only.