Darren Smith

AEIM focuses on a number of investment themes which include External Debt, Local Currency, Corporate Debt, Equities and Alternatives. The firm’s equity themes believe that Emerging and Frontier Markets are highly inefficient and provide strong potential for significant alpha generation through actively managed, high conviction and investment focused approaches. The Investment Committee collectively manages all portfolios and meets formally on a weekly basis to review markets, determine our investment strategy, and manage portfolios. They have a specialist, long-term value-driven approach starting with macro, top-down active management.

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Provides retail and commercial banking services

337 Frontier seeks to generate long-term returns by investing primarily in the equity of Frontier Africa companies. The firm employs a conservative, value-based, long-term investment philosophy that is supported by a disciplined research process. They look to maintain a concentrated portfolio of between 20 and 30 “core positions”. Although they do take the top-down macro view into account when making investment decisions, their primary focus is on bottom-up company specifics. 337 Frontier does not use any benchmarks for investment decision making or for the management of their portfolios.