Emerging markets - the alternative safe haven

Traditional 'safe-haven' investments are failing, says Bengt Saelensminde. Almost all types of assets are rising and falling together. But one little-known emerging market fund could provide a safe alternative to the West's volatility, while producing inflation-busting returns.

The traditional ways of preserving wealth just don't seem to work any more.

Now when markets collapse, they all seem to go down together. Markets that should be 'uncorrelated' follow the same rollercoaster ride into the Big Dipper.

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Bengt graduated from Reading University in 1994 and followed up with a master's degree in business economics.

 

He started stock market investing at the age of 13, and this eventually led to a job in the City of London in 1995. He started on a bond desk at Cantor Fitzgerald and ended up running a desk at stockbroker's Cazenove.

 

Bengt left the City in 2000 to start up his own import and beauty products business which he still runs today.