Something Big is Happening in Emerging Markets: The Didi IPO & A Growing Digital Revolution
With the internet becoming increasingly affordable and accessible, billions of people in the developing world are just now going online for the first time via smartphones. As the majority of the worlds population shifts their consumption patterns increasingly online, a rising middle-class consumer wave has begun to transform entire economies, producing new internet giants on par or even larger than their U.S. counterparts. Kevin will delve into the greater influence of this new digitized generation, the companies positioned at the front of these trends and ways for investors to gain targeted exposure to this growth story.
- What McKinsey and Co. call “the biggest growth opportunity in the history of capitalism”
- The coming DIDI IPO - The "Uber of China" listing in the U.S. and it's implications
- The growing India opportunity and it's unique digital transformation
- How internet giants like Alibaba, Tencent, MercadoLibre, and Sea Ltd are leading a digital revolution in Emerging Markets
- Potential delisting risk of U.S. listed Chinese companies and the degrading U.S. China relations
Event Recording
Something Big is Happening in Emerging Markets: The Didi IPO & A Growing Digital Revolution
- Future of Emerging MarketsFLAIA Webinar EMQQ The Future of Emerging Markets FINAL 6.29.21.pdf8 MB
- EMQQ Fact SheetEMQQ_Factsheet_Mar2021_2_Approved_975030a860 (1).pdf718 kB
- EMQQ WhitepaperEMQQ_Whitepaper.pdf399 kB
Speaker
Kevin Carter
- Title
- Chief Investment Officer @
- Company
- EMQQ
- Role
- Speaker
Mr. Carter is the Founder and CIO of the Emerging Markets Internet & Ecommerce ETF (NYSE: EMQQ) and Chairman of the EMQQ Index Committee. Prior to EMQQ, Mr. Carter was the Founder & CEO of AlphaShares, an investment firm offering five Emerging Markets ETFs in partnership with Guggenheim Investments. Previously Mr. Carter was the Founder & CEO of Active Index Advisors acquired by Natixis in 2005 and the Founder & CEO of eInvesting acquired by ETRADE in 2000. Mr. Carter received a degree in Economics from the University of Arizona and began his career in 1992 with Robertson Stephens & Company.
About
EMQQ
EMQQ aims to provide exposure to the intersection of three macro trends in emerging markets: the rising middle class, increasingly affordable smartphones, and consumption patterns going online for the first time via smartphones promoting rapid ecommerce growth. With the internet becoming increasingly affordable and accessible, billions of people in the developing world are now leapfrogging traditional consumption patterns and starting to consume online for the first time. The result of this rising middle-class consumer wave has transformed economies and created a digital revolution in emerging markets.