Tunisian Presidential and Parliamentary elections have finished. The worst-case scenario of a Presidential victor missing his inauguration due to his incarceration has not come to pass. Now the difficult process begins of building a Parliamentar...

Low turnout, success for the outsider candidates and confirmation of the fracture of the ruling Parliamentary party (Nidaa Tounes): these are our observations from the exit poll data following round 1 of the Tunisia Presidential election. This r...

After a long list of crises in the past decade or so, FM and small EM public equities represent a diverse and attractively valued opportunity set, particularly for the active fund manager. Passive funds are not well suited to this niche asset class.&...

Tourist destinations tend to bounce back from security setbacks: Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Morocco, Philippines, Thailand, Tunisia and Turkey are all examples from the frontier and emerging markets in the past two decades. And, of cou...

Unless Algeria's succession crisis transitions into a lasting, full-blown security crisis, then the impact on the wider region – from neighbours Morocco and Tunisia to further afield in the EU or Nigeria – or rival oil and gas exporte...