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Welcome to a brand new edition of Emerging Opportunities - the only show on your radio dedicated to the world of emerging markets, with Juliette Foster and Gavin Serkin, the author of Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, and the Managing Editor of Frontier Funds and Frontera News. Today is a special show focusing on a country that was making headlines a couple of weeks ago when President Obama visited - and removed the last vestiges of an arms embargo that has been in place since the Vietnam War. To find out the situation on the ground, Gavin spoke with Khanh Vu, Director at one of Vietnam's largest money managers, VinaCapital. He also spoke with Marcus Svedberg, the Chief Economist at East Capital, which manages over $2 billion in emerging markets, to get his take on the likely winners and losers as we enter what could be an extremely volatile few months.

This is Emerging Opportunities - the only show on radio dedicated to the world of emerging markets. Joining Juliette Foster in studio is Gavin Serkin, author of Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, and the Managing Editor of Frontier Funds and Frontera News. Also joining Juliette is James Bennett of Aston Currency Management & Joe Delvaux from Duet Asset Management. Topics today range from currency strength in emerging markets, trouble for Mozambique's economy & a debt scandal, plus discussion on Africa's broader economy & much more!

Pavegen are a company who have come up with revolutionary technology that transforms the power of people's footsteps into energy. Linda Lewis meets the CEO Laurence Kemball Cook, who reveals how the company has teamed up with Tribal Planet in Silicon Valley to turn the data from footsteps into a 'digital currency' which people can spend using their mobile phone.

India's long term economic prospects are good...that's according to the professional services company Price Waterhouse Coopers, whose latest analysis predicts that by 2050 India's economy could outperform those of the United States and China. However if India is to realise its potential, it has to sustain its reform policies whilst increasing investments in infrastructure and education. With so much in its favour is India the next investment hotspot? That's certainly the view of Spike Hughes, founder and CEO of Cohesion Investments whose joined forces with India's Reliance Capital Asset Management to launch a new fund. Spike Hughes now joins Juliette Foster in the studio.

Welcome to Emerging Opportunities - the only show on your radio dedicated to the world of emerging markets with Juliette Foster and Gavin Serkin, the author of Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, and the Managing Editor of Frontier Funds and Frontera News. On this week's show we're broadcasting from a rather special conference in Beverly Hills, LA. The event brings together a group of investors who are looking not just to make money, but also to help change the world - in a positive way. These impact investors are focused specifically on frontier markets and they invited my co-host, Gavin Serkin, along for their event. Gavin, who is the author of Frontier: Exploring the Top 10 Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, begins by speaking with Jean-Philippe de Schrevel. Jean-Philippe is one of the pioneers of microfinance and private equity investing in companies serving consumers in frontier markets. He is also the founder and CEO of Bamboo Finance.

Linda Lewis visits the people behind Cauli Rice an innovative range of low carb, low calory rice made from cauliflower which available in supermarkets. About a year ago Gem Misa was one of the finalists slightly nervously lined up to pitch their business idea to Richard Branson in the annual Virgin competition for start-ups and new businesses. An advertising campaign was part of their prize, Cauli Rice got a lot of media attention. And not long afterwards their innovative range of low carb, low calorie rice made from cauliflower was launched in supermarkets and online. Since then, co-founders Gem Misa and her husband Jamie have raised more investment, won more prizes and are already planning various new flavours and business extras, such as a subscription service for people watching their weight who want their low carbs delivered straight to the door in a regular order. With sales soaring, they've also opened an office in Battersea, South London.

This Emerging Opportunities - the only show on your radio dedicated to the world of emerging markets. Gavin Serkin, the author of Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, and the Managing Editor of Frontier Funds and Frontera News, joins Juliette Foster in the studio alongside Olivier Desbarres, a foreign exchange expert from Barclays and Credit Suisse and on the phone from Bangkok by political analyst Phillip Hynes of ISS. Topics on the agenda this week include ISIS, North Korea, Brazil, China & much more.

What is peer-to-peer lending? Sarah Pennells looks at the method behind it and how it can help set up a business and how crowdfunding can become a platform to a successful company. Sarah speaks to Karen Kerrigan, Director of UKCFA and Chief Legal Officer of Seedrs; Lucy Bott, Head of Customer Operations at RateSetter, a market place where rates are set by investors and borrowers; and Tom Britton, CTO and founder of Syndicate Room. While Tom and Lucy discuss the differences between peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding, Karen looks at women and their attitude towards the latter. Neil Faulkner, founder of 4thWay, also gives advice on peer-to peer lending and any risks that you should be aware of. Sarah also speaks with Gem Misa, founder of Righteous and CauliRice, about her experiences in setting up her businesses using crowdfunding.

This is Emerging Opportunities, the one and only show on your radio dedicated to global emerging markets, featuring Gavin Serkin, the author of Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, and the Managing Editor of Frontier Funds. His guests today are Zsolt Papp, Global Head of Emerging Market debt client portfolio strategies at JP Morgan, David Pollard, a professor of physics turned banker for Citigroup and his daughter Arese Pollard, whose many roles have included investment at Barclays, whom both created ‘Pollard Et Filles Capital Management’. Topics on the agenda today take us to many different locales, from Guyana to Brazil, to China, Cuba & Jamaica, looking at investing in emerging markets.

This is Emerging Opportunities, the only show on radio dedicated to the world of emerging markets. Investment Perspectives host Juliette Foster is joined by Gavin Serkin, author of "Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow", who's also the Managing Editor of "Frontier Funds and Frontera News". This week we resume our trek around the Indian Sub-continent. Having explored India and Pakistan we're heading live to Dhaka today to look at recent news concerning an $81 million steal from Bangladesh’s Central Bank. For this we join Asif Khan. Aaron Grehan of Aviva Investors also joins the team on the line to talk the US Federal Reserve, scandal in Brazil and much much more.