Over the past two years, the credit crunch has at times felt like a contagious disease, moving first from the US to western Europe, before extending across the globe to eastern Europe, central Asia and then the far east. Here Financial News profiles ten investment funds searching the corners of the earth for markets that haven’t caught the bug.

The ten funds range from equity funds to debt funds to venture capital funds, but all aim to invest in economies which offer better returns than the western markets which have proved so turbulent over the past 24 months.