Archive for May, 2012

Sri Lanka: Recovery, Growth, Opportunities and Concerns

Via Guru Focus, a look at Sri Lanka: Royce’s global team scours the globe looking for companies that fit our investment criteria. Sri Lanka is a country that has crossed our radar in the past and earlier this January we had the opportunity to spend time on the island nation looking for investments. As a […]

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Laos: Approaching WTO Membership

Via Emerging Frontiers blog, a look at Laos’ efforts to join the WTO: After almost a decade of major economic transformation, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic is on the brink of World Trade Organization (WTO) membership. The small country’s Herculean effort to join the exclusive trade club is a reminder to the 10 other least-developed […]

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Cambodia’s New Corporate Darling: Phnom Penh Water Supply

Courtesy of Emerging Frontiers blog, an article on one of Cambodia’s early corporate successes: When the Khmer Rouge were driven out of Phnom Penh in 1979 they left behind a city that had been laid bare. Its infrastructure was in ruins and utilities like the colonial-era water supply were in a state of filthy disrepair. […]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.