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January 31st, 2013
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at how emerging market consumers may think of brands as their wealth grows: As China, India and Indonesia become more wealthy, more of their consumers hard-earned cash could find its way overseas. This is not about the most wealthy fleeing their homelands or investing their money abroad […]
Read more »Opening A New Frontier In Bangladesh
January 31st, 2013
Courtesy of Finance Asia, an article on Bangladesh: Bangladesh usually attracts attention for the wrong reasons. Too often the country appears in news headlines for its natural or man-made disasters, or else it is dismissed as a source of employment for NGOs or cheap labour for the garment industry. Yet, as long ago as 2005, […]
Read more »Frontier Markets: Worth The Risk?
January 31st, 2013
Via Money Marketing, an interesting look at frontier markets: This month’s hostage crisis in Algeria made headlines around the world. The terrorist attack on the natural gas facility is another reminder of the security issues at many oil and gas sites. Social and political unrest is also being seen in neighbouring Mali and the ongoing […]
Read more »Foreign Money Pours Into Laos
January 31st, 2013
Via the Wall Street Journal, a look at how neighboring countries are jostling for work in Laos: On the face of it, Laos is a no man’s land for foreign investors. This landlocked, Southeast Asian nation of 6.5 million people offers a tiny market. Experts say corruption is widespread. And some foreigners say they have […]
Read more »Mongolia’s Economic Boom
January 31st, 2013
Via The Diplomat, an article on Mongolia’s economic boom: Mongolia enters 2013 as one of the world’s fastest growing economies, with forecasters predicting GDP growth of 18-20 percent. Driven by a boom in mining revenues, the impact of this growth is clearly visible in Mongolia’s capital city, Ulaanbaatar, where expensive office high rises, modern apartment […]
Read more »Investing In An Arab Summer
January 28th, 2013
Via The Financial Times, a report on MENA investment opportunities: “Don’t be afraid of the Middle East.” That, in short, is the message of private equity investor Mustafa Abdel-Wadood at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. “Despite the headlines, there are a lot opportunities in the region,” Abdel-Wadood, whose Abraaj Group has $7.5bn […]
Read more »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.