Hamid Asseffar, former head of EMEA sustainable and impact investing at Invesco, has launched T50, an Irish ICAV investment platform focused on helping institutional and professional investors efficiently capture untapped investment opportunities in emerging markets through both listed and blended finance solutions.
Asseffar has an extensive emerging markets experience across public markets and blended finance, having spent six years at Invesco in roles including head of EMEA sustainable and impact investing, head of Asset Managers, UK and ETF business development director. He previously held roles at Amundi and Credit Suisse.
T50 aims to address structural challenges that have historically prevented thousands of corporates and infrastructure projects in emerging markets from accessing global capital. The platform will introduce a distinctive approach to EM investing through a solution driven approach, collaborating with leading financial institutions in Emerging Markets to deliver innovative and scalable products tailored to address the challenges investors face deploying capital to these markets.
The platform launches at a pivotal moment for emerging markets, a region projected to contribute approximately 65% of global economic growth by 2035, yet significant funding gaps persist due to market fragmentation, perceived risk, and a lack of standardisation that would enable more investment products to come to market.
Asseffar said: “Many projects in developing economies remain disconnected from the vast pools of international allocators looking to diversify their regional and sector exposures and capture new growth opportunities. The developing world is only now industrialising and urbanising and this process requires significant amount of capital as well as specialism that can connect international investors with those markets through modern institutional class products.
“We see interesting opportunities in the region that are not yet able to attract the attention of institutional investors and a lack of investment vehicles providing alternative sources of capital. Often opportunities are bankable but located in sub-investment grade countries with substantial currency risk, putting them outside the comfort zone of most banks and fiduciaries, but solutions exist to tackle those market structure issues.”
“T50 will look to bridge this gap through a solutions-driven product approach that standardise disparate opportunities and connect local and global capital markets.
“We will partner with market leaders to craft differentiated strategies and help investors efficiently capture those untapped investment opportunities in what we believe will be tomorrow’s most dynamic markets, blending financial performance with lasting positive impact.”
This launch comes as 2025 marked the first year of EM fund inflows rebound since 2021, highlighting the region’s strong resilience and setting a constructive backdrop for emerging markets as we head into 2026. Investor appetite for the region continues to accelerate with year-to-date flows into EM bonds and equities have respectively reaching +$25.2bn and +$21.4bn*
The firm will leverage some of the fastest growing market trends and scalable asset classes to achieve its strategy to help investors efficiently capture new opportunities in emerging markets.
