Does Greece Deserve Its Bad Reputation?

The Managing Director at our new Greece operations agrees that, on paper, we must be mad to invest in the country – but opportunities are growing by the Aegean Sea.

Between bailouts, riots, rumours of an EU exit and a new anti-austerity government stirring up emotion, Greece is hardly at the top of investors' minds right now.

Indeed, we've seen a halt in investment over the last few years as the problems really started to grow; investors are not just playing a wait-and-see game, but are putting Greece in the "too much trouble" basket.

Alexis Tsipras leads the new coalition of left and right wing parties that came to power on an anti-austerity ticket as we entered 2015, and his message was loud and clear: Greece wanted a fundamental renegotiation of its economic bailout package, vowing that "the end of humiliation has come".