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Speaker: Susan Payne
Job title: Chief Executive Officer
Emergent Asset Management is an award-winning alternative investment management firm, which was founded in 1997. It has three core businesses: hedge funds, strategic partnerships and private equity. The firm specialises in early stage investing, which is informed by its proprietary geo-political model. The firm launched its African Agricultural Land Fund in 2008, investing in a highly diverse range of crop, livestock and agri industry in 14
countries in the SADC free trade zone in sub-Saharan Africa. The fund reflects Emergent's expectation that food security is the next energy security. The fund qualifies as a Socially Responsible Investment.