Poland bids farewell to investors

Not long ago, Poland was still the darling of emerging markets. Not so much anymore, says Andrew Van Sickle.

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Not long ago, Poland was still "the darling of emerging markets", says Shahzad Hasan of Allianz Global Investors. But he has "not been impressed" by recent developments, he told the FT. He's not alone. Since the election of the Law and Justice party last October, one ETF tracking the stockmarket has lost a third of its assets. The currency has plummeted and the local WIG 20 index of blue-chip companies has lost over a fifth in the past year.

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Andrew Van Sickle
Editor, MoneyWeek

Andrew is the editor of MoneyWeek magazine. He grew up in Vienna and studied at the University of St Andrews, where he gained a first-class MA in geography & international relations.

After graduating he began to contribute to the foreign page of The Week and soon afterwards joined MoneyWeek at its inception in October 2000. He helped Merryn Somerset Webb establish it as Britain’s best-selling financial magazine, contributing to every section of the publication and specialising in macroeconomics and stockmarkets, before going part-time.

His freelance projects have included a 2009 relaunch of The Pharma Letter, where he covered corporate news and political developments in the German pharmaceuticals market for two years, and a multiyear stint as deputy editor of the Barclays account at Redwood, a marketing agency.

Andrew has been editing MoneyWeek since 2018, and continues to specialise in investment and news in German-speaking countries owing to his fluent command of the language.