Asset Management

Meet the Duet manager outperforming on the wild frontier

Hedi Ben Mlouka, frontier markets investment chief at Duet Group and a former top-ranked Tunisian tennis player, has delivered a return during the turmoil in emerging markets that has left many of his rivals battered.

Meet the Duet manager outperforming on the wild frontier
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Hedi Ben Mlouka, frontier markets investment chief at Duet Group and a former top-ranked Tunisian tennis player, has delivered a return during the turmoil in emerging markets that has left many of his rivals battered.

His $250 million Duet EM Frontier Fund has produced an annualised 8.84% return since inception in January 2013 until March 25, compared with an annualised loss of 4.96% from the MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets Index.

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