If it's emerging markets, it's EMJ. A new kind of intelligence platform, empowering global markets and trusted by independent investors to widen the aperture - beyond limits and labels. Welcome home.
Our Brands
The EMJ
Our gazette is a leading industry intelligence hub producing daily news, in-depth analysis and commentary across emerging and frontier markets.
Grounded in financial services and asset management, our coverage also takes a wider approach by introducing investors to the EM innovators and leaders, fresh data and unique cultures that make these markets both compelling and competitive.
The industry's first global recognition series exclusively dedicated to emerging markets investment leadership.
Featuring a full calendar of awards and executive listing programs, OQULUS showcases excellence, innovation, and impact driving EM and Frontier growth around the world. From 2026 we supplement these programs with our new Verified service, which provides product and project directories across several categories.
Our advisory and content studio crafts bespoke communications strategy and engagement assets for investors and companies that capture new GEM audiences.
AGENTUR leverages collective decades of investor marketing and reputation management experience, introducing products and stewarding image for the world's largest asset managers, investment banks, private funds, law firms and technologists.
Team Details
Leadership
Oqtive verticals are executed by our global editorial team, operations and advisory board of experienced leaders located around the world. The platform is founded and overseen by Bourgaize Murray.
We are truly global, as befits our mission. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California and Tbilisi, Georgia, our members are distributed globally and company registration in Delaware. Our team is completing EU electronic residency and incorporation in the Republic of Estonia.
We love to chat. Reach our team by email, on Signal at Emerging.11, and through our social channels.
OQ Mission
Scale. >
Salience. <
Staying Power.
EM experts know the numbers: 60% of global GDP, the world's fastest growing economies, much of its energy and commodities resources, and ascendant influence. All of this lives in emerging markets, and against these benchmarks, global investment in EM is decades behind.
That is our starting point at OQ: encouraging greater allocation and democratization into EM, to bridge that gap with discovery.
Intertwined with growing assets and capital flows is the call to affect a choice. Reframing EM salience with quality storytelling, better data, celebrations of leadership, and plain assessment across risks, opportunities, and legacies in today's chaotic environment.
The more viscerally global investors know emerging markets, the more they tend to allocate.
Growth, product innovation, and lasting partnerships in EM all rely on changing the cyclical, ebb-and-flow dynamic that has historically governed its narrative.
Therefore a third purpose for the OQ platform is to affirmatively design for sustainability (in the broader sense)
Flow OQ
Capital Into EM. >
From EM. <
Within EM. <>
While the relationship between EM and DM investors continues to layer and evolve, the key direction of travel for investment remains from major global markets.
Conversely, EM allocators are becoming more sophisticated and influential, not only in their own local markets and regionally but in their global engagement across a spectrum of asset management and banking partners. Therefore, a second flow we track in our content explores their preferences, successes and challenges.
The growing interconnectivity between emerging markets, with a range of broader implications and motives for the world's geoeconomics and politics - but most of all for potential opportunities and impacts on the ground.
OQ Commitments
Imperative.
Impartial.
Impact.
We are on a mission to make GEM bigger, more relevant, and more durable. Ours is an effort to persuade, not only inform.
OQ therefore always asks of our content: why should global investors, especially those new to this space, care? As an editorial team we see this opportunity as a privilege, and we design accordingly: speaking the language of the markets, aggregating the data and implications you need to decide, and delivering value quickly.
The EM argument is only won with seriousness, impartiality, and judgement. Our commitment is this: if you read it here, it is actionable and it matters.
In a world of hyper-concentration, megacap dominance and retrenchment, much about the challenges of GEM investment is overstated while its potential is drowned out.
OQ believes emerging market narratives deserve accuracy and honesty, quality storytelling and strong amplification. We also believe in healthy debate and identifying the contradictions inherent in today's landscape.
Put simply, to be impartial is to be fearless, and that is our aspiration.
Perhaps the most dynamic of the three flows is the growing interconnectivity between emerging markets, with a range of broader implications and motives for the world's geoeconomics and politics - but most of all for potential opportunities and impacts on the ground.