Sarasin’s head of governance and environmental research Adam Frost addresses the investment seminar. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1109547)

FAVOURABLE demographics and new technologies will continue to aid economic growth across many developing nations, according to equity research analyst Julian Bishop.

He was speaking to more than 100 local finance professionals at the latest Sarasin & Partners investment seminar on new market opportunities and how emerging markets were outgrowing developed ones and, as a result, presenting fantastic opportunities for investors.

Mr Bishop, who specialises in analysing the emerging markets in his role with Sarasin in London, highlighted how rising dependency ratios in the developed world were creating a ‘demographic timebomb’ largely attributable to the baby boomers’ generation that was now reaching retirement age, as opposed to a ‘demographic dividend’ in developing markets such as India and Kenya.

‘The pattern is very conducive to growth in the emerging markets,’ said Mr Bishop.

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