Plamen Monovski

RAM is a hands-on, emerging markets specialist manager which invests in Russia, the CIS, Emerging Europe, Africa and Frontier Markets. The firm has a team of dedicated African-origin investment managers in place in Africa which travels extensively in core African markets to meet with companies and closely monitor the macro-economic development of Africa economies.

BIM-UK utilizes their market insights, global reach, proprietary technology, culture of information sharing and focus on risk management to deliver performance in all market environments. For their equity investments, the firm utilizes style-neutral (core and high performance), value and growth processes. They have combined a top-down and bottom-up approach for their fixed-income and balanced products. The fixed-income investment team specializes in market segments and focuses on quantitative analysis.

RCIML's overall investment strategy begins with a top-down approach based on fundamental macroeconomic research and direct contact with Russian policy makers in order to determine the firm's investment policy. This first stage also includes an asset allocation process based on fundamental sector analysis and the assessment of key growth factors and volatility of return. This step is the responsibility of the investment committee. Subsequently, the firm picks stocks following a bottom-up process based on the mosaic theory. They use a proprietary valuation model and conduct company visits. This process is the responsibility of portfolio managers. The firm's traders execute orders. RCIML manages portfolios invested across asset classes, regions and sectors with the bulk of their investments in Russian securities. They also have specialist expertise for European emerging markets. They engage in both active and passive management.