Archive for June, 2013

Rites Of Passage: How The Opening Of Myanmar Could Transform Asia
June 1st, 2013

Via The Economist, an interesting look at how the opening of Myanmar may benefit the rest of Asia: Putting the Irrawaddy to work ON THE NORTHERN outskirts of Yangon lie the sprawling industrial estates that used to provide Myanmar’s economic muscle, such as it was. Now, after decades of sanctions and economic mismanagement, many of […]

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Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda: Pipeline Poker
June 1st, 2013

Courtesy of The Economist, a look at East Africa’s oil related conundrum: IN MARCH last year the heads of state of Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan met among mangroves in Lamu, a Kenyan town on the Indian Ocean, to launch the construction of a port and oil pipeline together costing $16 billion that would serve […]

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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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