Our flagship program, Eminent Investors is an exclusive listing of the top investment professionals and corporate leaders driving EM investment forward.
In many ways, 2025 has introduced EM to the global investor community in a newly constructive and potentially sustainable way. Selections this year therefore recognize the strategic vision, product innovation, and enterprise-level commitment that have converted this opportunity: by fostering new growth and access, and with an eye to consolidating EM gains beyond the cycle.
We invite you to explore the program in detail below, and look forward to your entries.
Six Eminent Investor Categories
For Professionals with Four or More Years of Experience
| Traditional Funds
Portfolio managers, heads of strategy, and distribution leaders across mutual funds and ETF franchises focused on EM and Frontier.
| Private & Alternatives
Fund managers and deal professionals across on EM-focused hedge/risk strategies, fund of funds, private equity and credit.
| Capital Markets
Talismanic investment bankers and EM traders, including in dealmaking and issuance orchestration across ECM and DCM.
| Private Wealth
Senior wealth advisors promoting and tailoring EM strategies and expertise to the growing global UHNW segment.
| SWFs & Allocators
Sovereign wealth and public fund leadership, domiciled inside or outside EMs, focused on growing emerging and frontier markets.
| Corner Suite Champions
Chief executives, heads of region and CIOs who have demonstrated extra commitment in supporting their firm's EM vision and growth.
2026 Selection Criteria
Our Four Big Questions
| Performance
Showcase how your team's performance is uniquely emblematic of EMs' strong 2025. New flows, major allocations, outperforming benchmark, absolute returns, risk factors, capacity building - slice it and dice it.
| Innovation
What's new? How did your team address client requirements with new products, thematics, rotations, or other strategies?
| Collaboration
Our core mission is to increase EM salience. Tell us about your efforts with invested entities' engagement, deal partners, multi-laterals or key stakeholders to bring the EM story and its opportunities to a wider global investor audience.
| Legacy
Asserting the leadership to make 2025's gains last is critical. Tell us about how your strategy has evolved, or is drawing from past experience, to create the foundation to build upon this year's momentum.
Extra Value
Celebrating our inaugural programs
To celebrate our inaugural Eminent programs, we are pleased to offer all successful entrants an inclusive partnership content opportunity in 2026.
Following selection, we will engage with your firm to determine preference with respect to content and calendaring, Anticipated offerings including a fund or project profile, executive Q&A, or showcase placement within our Quanta research library. Limit one per firm. Reach out to us for more information.
