Eighteen months on from the Arab Spring, fund managers are confident that Egypt’s first democratically elected president can put the country back on the road to economic growth – but he must act quickly to avoid missing the country’s best chance of attracting investment.

The election of Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Islamist party the Muslim Brotherhood, had provoked rumblings of concern among the country's Coptic Christians, who count among their number several of the country's most prominent businessmen.