Archive for November, 2015

Investing In Iran: Challenges
November 5th, 2015

Courtesy of the Financial Times, an interesting article on Iran: A great deal has been written about the opportunities waiting for both strategic and portfolio investors in post-sanctions Iran. There is no denying that the country of almost 80m people, holder of the world’s third largest reserves of oil and its second largest reserves of […]

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Paraguay: South America’s Economic Bright Spot
November 3rd, 2015

Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at Paraguay: The downturn in global commodity prices has hit Latin America hard. Although Brazil and Venezuela are the most notable cases, several countries in the region are experiencing major economic slowdowns or even contractions. Paraguay, however, has managed to buck this trend and become a hotspot for […]

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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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