Daniel Salter leads Renaissance Capital’s equity strategy research in frontier and emerging markets and heads up the firm’s research in all markets outside of Africa. He has two decades of investment experience on both the buy- and sell-sides. A graduate of Oxford University, Daniel was a portfolio manager at Deutsche Asset Management, investing in frontier and emerging markets across EMEA, just as many of the region's equity markets were opening up. He then spent a decade in Moscow, initially heading up ABN AMRO's Russian equity business, before being appointed by ING to lead their Russian & CIS research (where he was involved in numerous IPOs) and to head their EM strategy team, followed by a similar role at UniCredit. Daniel joined Renaissance Capital in 2013, and is based in London. His recent work includes launching the firm’s pan-Frontier strategy coverage, regular think pieces on Russia, research in to how countries can escape the middle income trap as well as launching a macro-framework for asset allocation within Emerging Markets and Frontier. He manages the firm’s RenCap Alpha high conviction top ideas list.