Welcome to MUNDIAL. A different kind of financial newspaper for contemporary intelligence and advocacy, built on old-fashioned attitude.
Here, discerning investors find the clarity, data, debates and champions that drive new economies' investment forward. Offering daily intelligence, insights, recognition and partnership to track global markets' pulse, unpack their salience, and sustain your edge in today's competition for capital and ideas.
We are living through a fast-shifting era, one tilted towards new corners of global markets. Yet whether in scale, modalities or mindshare the world's investment in these emerging economies not only hasn't caught up; it isn't close. MUNDIAL is therefore a conduit: to amplify their investment story, draw distinctions, showcase excellence, and ultimately drive allocation and greater authority for the voices we cover.
Everything we do - from interpreting the news and interviews to expert fora and audience communities - is designed and dedicated exclusively to seizing this opportunity.
That is our raison d'être. To create a better investment world informed and open, unafraid and moving plus ultra, further beyond.
Masthead
MUNDIAL is not a newsletter. Not a Substack. Not memes. Instead here, what's old is new. We aspire to provide a flavour of eccentric, independent, and contrarian news and viewpoints; a new business publication with the spirit of broadsheets and magazines of the past.
In we particular we make tribute to the International (formerly New York) Herald Tribune, the world's first global newspaper and unofficial record for the American Lost Generation in Paris, where it was published. Like the IHT, MUNDIAL aspires to be a must-have companion to local markets coverage delivered with cosmopolitan style that earned it iconic status – from the best of the French New Wave to an "inveterate iconoclast" short seller.
Our brand also makes subtle reference to the journalistic part: notably Madrid (and its Royal Palace nameplate), a former evening daily that famously stood up in the late throes of Spain's Francoist dictatorship. A reminder that trenchancy lies at the heart of reporting.
More than ever, our team believes a critical, honest and innately human approach is required of economic journalism – especially given our mission. MUNDIAL is therefore not only a continuation, but a daily reminder of our ambition. To take a different view, report the truth in an increasingly washed-over world, and remain fiercely independent.
News
Our news team delivers daily news intelligence and analysis, monthly trackers and features, opinion, leader profiles and partnership opportunities across exciting digital, newsletters, and social channels. MUNDIAL focus markets are organised across Financial Markets, Wealth, and Macro.
Together we envision these as a gazette for global decision makers and influencers that addresses a discerning, global investor audience. We publish only slop-free content, prioritising alacrity, colour, and the truth. If it's important to emerging markets, it's here: crafted with deserving depth, impartiality, and elegance.
MUNDIAL Coverage:
Financier
Our exclusive focus on emerging markets investment across public and private asset classes. We focus on the untold stories of fund leadership and trading innovation, growing opportunity and thematics unfolding in EM, and the ways emerging markets investors and allocators are, themselves, bearing increasing influence on global markets today.
Wealth & Culture
Timeless dives deep into emerging markets' global wealth culture with specific focus on wealth management and private banking strategies, the globalisation of EM real estate, as well as culture and lifestyle trends that are unique to emerging markets.
Macro
Covering the expert firms that shape the world of emerging markets, Affairs is devoted to macro, geoeconomics and risk, as well as reputation - disciplines both ever-growing and responding to massive tectonic shifts in our space.
Awards Series & Tables
We are proud to present the industry's first global recognition calendar featuring a full slate of awards, executive spotlights, and tables – across our core verticals and exclusively for global markets.
MUNDIAL Awards is our series judged for excellence, innovation, and impact among individual leaders and experts, corporates and collaborations, throughout the year.
We supplement these programs with Tourbillon Tables, rankings which showcase outstanding funds, products and platforms in fulsome detail at both global and regional EM levels, as well as our specialised Verified guides and directories.
Details at a glance:
Calendars
The awards cycle begins in May of each year. Our tables are updated annually and released from May to July. Guides and directories are published and open to new inclusions (respectively) year round. Learn more about 2026 editions here.
Entry & Fees
Awards nominations and Tables profile collateral can be submitted through our dedicated portal. In keeping with our mission, fees are aligned and limited only to our production costs. For 2026, all programs are set at $395.
Adjudication
Our Global Advisory Board is the responsible body overseeing our full range of annual programs, including determination of awards winners and oversight of our tables' methodology. More on their expertise here.
Toneboard Studio
We are rooted in advocacy; therefore beyond our own platform we also advise EM pioneers and help them better reach (even more) global media. Our sister financial communications advisory and content studio, Toneboard, crafts bespoke engagement strategy, media campaigns, core branding and advocacy for organisations serving emerging audiences – both D2C and B2B.
Doubling as the production team for MUNDIAL, Toneboard is designed in keeping with our mission: to extend the influence of emerging markets players, the products serving them, and leaders who champion them.
The practice team leverages collective decades of investor marketing, digital and reputation management experience, with successes in market entry and introducing investment products, campaigns securing premium placements, and stewarding image for the world's largest asset managers, investment banks, private funds, law firms and technologists.
Everything here - from interpreting the news and interviews to expert fora and audience communities - is designed and dedicated exclusively to seizing this opportunity. To creating an investment world informed, unafraid and instead moving plus ultra, further beyond.