Emerging markets: there is no need to panic

Ignore the panic surrounding emerging markets right now, says Lars Henriksson. Smart investors should keep faith and ride out the storm.

My name is Lars Stig Tore Henriksson. I was born in Kalix, a tiny town in northern Sweden, famous for its beautiful archipelago where a fjord enters the Gulf of Bothnia. And this makes me a Viking.

For most Brits the Vikings were all about conquest, expulsion, extortion and commerce. But the Vikings were also great travellers of the seas, with well-crafted wooden long boats, they went in search of ripe rewards. Their lasting legacy was the formation of the independent kingdoms of England and Scotland. But what is less appreciated is that many of us, particularly from Sweden, travelled and traded with various people along the rivers in the East and helped to found Russia and ventured as far as Asia.

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Lars is an emerging-markets expert, with many years of 'on the ground' experience hunting down profit opportunities in Asia. Lars spent ten years living in Malaysia and Thailand, seeking out strategic opportunities, before moving to London to manage the Oracle Asia Absolute Fund. In short, Lars has real knowledge of where the opportunities in Asia are.