Sven Richter becomes a Renaissance man

Renaissance Asset Managers appoints Richter as head of frontier markets.

Renaissance Asset Managers has appointed Sven Richter as managing director, head of frontier markets. Richter joins from Franklin Templeton’s emerging markets group, where he managed a number of funds and also launched two of Templeton’s frontier market strategies.

At Templeton, where he worked for two decades, Richter was also responsible for research in Africa, with a focus on the commodities sector.

Richter will be the first to fill this newly created position, managing several emerging