Zurich, 27 January, 2009

Horasis - together with Rainbow Insight and Atherstone India Invest - hosted today the Emerging Markets Investors Roundtable in Zurich, Switzerland. 50 CEOs of emerging (and stablished) markets based corporations, 50 members of the investors community and 50 policy-makers/thought leaders met to discuss investment opportunities in these turbulent times.

Participants included: Abdul Malik Al-Jaber, CEO, PalTel Group, Palestine; Mohammed Al-Naki, Chairman, Kuwait Industries, Kuwait; Abdulaziz Al Saghyir, Chairman, Etihad Etisalat, Saudi Arabia; Claude Beglé, Chairman, Swisspost, Switzerland; Andrei Bougrov, Managing Director, Interros Holding Company, Russia; Chen Feng, Chairman, Hainan Airlines, China; Senator Daggash, Government of Nigeria; Jose-Maria Figueres, former President of Costa Rica; Shafik Gabr, Chairman, Artoc, Egypt; Paul Harris, CEO, First Rand, South Africa; Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman of the Executive Council, Hasbro; Baba Kalyani, Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Forge, India; Karim Kawar, President, Kawar Group, Jordan; Shiv Khemka, Vice Chairman, SUN Group, India; Wolfgang Lehmacher, CEO, GeoPost Intercontinental, France; Kishore Mahbubani, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore; Alfonso Rodes-Vila, CEO, Havas Media, France; Armen Sarkissian, former Prime Minister of Armenia; Ludwig Sobolowski, CEO, Warsaw Stock Exchange, Poland; Laura Tyson, Professor, Haas School of Business, USA; Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times, UK.

The incoming global recession threatens to alter fundamentally the macro outlook for all emerging markets. At a time of considerable uncertainty, the purpose of the Emerging Markets Investors Roundtable was to shed light on how the crisis is impacting particular countries and to assess the investment opportunities they offer in the short, medium and long-term.

This high-level gathering was directed towards private investors. It afforded them an invaluable opportunity to confront their views and exchange ideas with prominent policy-makers and CEOs from a broad universe of emerging markets. The programme was structured to encourage candid dialogue and to generate practical investment ideas.

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