Guides
Plain-English risk guidance.
Short, practical explainers on the methodology and structures behind frontier-market risk — how we score exposure, how capital is ring-fenced, how sanctions screening works, and which dimensions decide whether Zimbabwe exposure survives — with links to the templates that put each idea into practice.
Qualitative and illustrative information only — not legal, financial or investment advice. Engage qualified counsel before acting.
The six risk dimensions
How we decompose frontier-market exposure into six measurable dimensions — currency, sovereign, regulatory, counterparty, liquidity and political — score each one, and pair it with a matched mitigant.
Read guideRing-fencing Zimbabwe risk
The structural discipline that keeps investor capital out of Zimbabwean balance-sheet risk — USD-denominated NAV, South African holding under treaty cover, operational-minimum local balances, and dual-signatory and collateral controls.
Read guideOFAC / UN / EU screening
What continuous sanctions screening across the OFAC, UN, EU and UK perimeters actually checks, why it is a point-in-time reference exercise rather than a compliance opinion, and where the lines sit for Zimbabwe-exposed dealings.
Read guideSovereign & FX risk
The two dimensions that most often decide whether Zimbabwe exposure survives — sovereign distress and sanctions on one side, currency devaluation and parallel-market spreads on the other — and the mitigants matched to each.
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