Mark Mobius, executive chairman, Templeton Emerging Markets Group, is often referred to as the “Indiana Jones of emerging market investing”. Here he speaks to FOG about his most recent experiences in researching investment opportunities in some of the world’s highest risk frontier markets.
Mark Mahoney of Wealden Associates knows all about the challenges of running a family office. For the last five years he has acted as an adviser and is also an Associate of Global Partnership Family Offices. Here he talks to FOG about the kind of problems that his clients are confronting.
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of Easyjet and EasyGroup, his private investment vehicle, sees encouraging entrepreneurship as a way of promoting philanthropic goals.
Should family offices use psychometric assessments in their recruitment practices? Executive headhunter Guy Ropner examines this curious world of testing.
Freelance journalist Kira Nickerson looks at what UK-based asset managers and economists are saying about current macro economic conditions and their forecasts for the rest of 2013