OREANDA-NEWS. December 6, 2011. Renaissance Capital, the leading emerging markets investment bank, today opened its 2nd Annual Emerging Markets Investor Conference in Hong Kong -- a premier event for international investors and corporations seeking access to emerging and frontier markets across Russia, the CIS, Asia, Africa and Central and Eastern Europe.

Following its successful inauguration in 2010, this year’s two-day conference has drawn over 400 investors and companies to Hong Kong. The event was opened by John Tsang, Financial Secretary of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Ashley Alder, CEO of the Securities and Futures Commission.

 “The emerging markets – long encumbered by an association with risk, relatively speaking – will become an investment term most identified with stability,” said Stephen Jennings, CEO of Renaissance Capital, in his opening remarks. “Ironically, 90% of the discussion we see played out 24 hours a day in the media and investor communication is about the West, when 90% of the economic opportunity is in the emerging markets.”

The Renaissance Capital conference has a strong commodities focus, with discussions about the oil & gas and metals & mining industries, as well as the topics of infrastructure development and agriculture. Presenters include senior representatives of key oil & gas governing bodies, some of the world’s largest integrated oil & gas companies, and a number of high-conviction oil & gas explorers seeking prospects in frontier markets as well as miners, commodity traders and resource investors.

Renaissance Capital opened its Hong Kong office in 2010, followed one year later by a Beijing office.