Renaissance Group vice chairman Ashar Qureshi tells Alex Aldridge why he traded in a partnership at Cleary for a senior investment banking role
“People are realising that a single event – even a major one – isn’t enough to throw emerging markets off course anymore,” remarks Ashar Qureshi, vice chairman of Renaissance Group, the Russia-based investment bank specialising in investments in the CIS and Africa. “Take Egypt, where we have investments and trade securities,” he continues. “Despite the crisis, stocks in companies based there haven’t shown the fragility many assumed they would.”
