Archive for April, 2012

Obstacles To Foreign Investment In Myanmar
April 2nd, 2012

Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), some analysis of potential challenges to foreign investment in Myanmar: Myanmar held parliamentary by-elections April 1, during which the country’s opposition party, led by democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, won at least 40 of 45 seats. The polls come one year after the March 2011 establishment of a nominally […]

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Central Asia: Pivot Region Of Global Geopolitics
April 2nd, 2012

Via Al Jazeera, some commentary on Central Asia: Dubbed as the “pivot region” of world politics, the five Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have collectively gained an immense strategic importance over the last two decades, thanks to their geography and vast deposits of natural resources including gold, gas, oil and […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.

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