Frontier market

And with him is Nitin Dialdas, the Chief Investment Officer at Mandarin Capital.

We're also going to get an update on Asia's frontier markets today with Ruchir Desai of Asia Frontier Capital.

And if you want to get in touch, please go to my website, peterlewismoneytalk.substack.com.

Your stocks fell Wednesday as Treasury yields resumed their ascent.

Sorry to cut you short there because we could have talked for a lot longer, but we've sadly run out of time.

That's Nitin Dialdas, who is Chief Investment Officer at Mandarin Capital, and our regular Thursday morning commentator, Andrew Ferris, who is the CEO of Econosis Advisory.

This is Money Talk on a Thursday morning, and we're going to take a look at Asia's frontier markets now, as we like to do on a regular basis with Ruchir Desai, who is fund manager at Asia Frontier Capital.

Morning, Ruchir.

And so those are frontier countries that have probably the most opportunities in the risk management and other from investments to technology, to social systems, to NGOs, to energy.

Those areas are going to be and still are the most frontier markets that are out there for us.

When you started Altheria, what was the kind of the core services that you believed were going to be of need and you're going to be able to bring clients on board to have you solve those challenges for them? In the early days, what was the impetus? What was the key services and where you found the most success?

Probably the most success at that time, because it was 2006, was PSD movements.

So that's not shabby.

And then you've got, you know, next to that, the Frontiers Market, Blackrock Frontiers Investment Trust, made 7.2%.

Europe was up almost nine.

The UK large caps are up almost nine.