The Brics Are Dead… Long Live The Ticks
January 28th, 2016
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on the decline of Brazil and Russia from an emerging market fund perspective: The Brics are dead. Long live the Ticks. The Brics concept, based on the belief that the quartet of Brazil, Russia and India and China would power an unstoppable wave of emerging markets-led economic growth, […]
Read more »Iran: Back In Business
January 26th, 2016
Via The New Yorker, a look at Iran’s business potential: Ostracized as a pariah for almost four decades, Iran is back in business in a mere ten days—and with both East and West. On Saturday, the Islamic Republic welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping—and a delegation of three deputy premiers, six cabinet ministers, and a planeload […]
Read more »North Korea’s Economy
January 24th, 2016
Via The Economist, a look at North Korea’s economy: A POWERFUL army usually depends on a strong economy. Not in North Korea. Per head, the country has more soldiers than any other: 1.2m out of a population of 25m. As well as a huge conventional arsenal, it also has a dozen nuclear warheads and spends […]
Read more »Vietnam: Positive Progress
January 24th, 2016
Via The Economist, a look at why foreign firms and investors are cheerful once more about Vietnam’s prospects: WHEN he left a job in banking to join a “company that sells fish sauce” in Vietnam, Michael Nguyen’s parents wondered if he was throwing away a lucrative career. Now a big cheese at Masan Group, one […]
Read more »Iran Opening Stirs New Interest From Businesses
January 22nd, 2016
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a report on Iran’s economic opening: Iran is pushing full throttle to re-establish business with the rest of the world as Western companies move cautiously to renew ties abandoned during international economic sanctions that largely ended a week ago. Thorny legal hurdles still stand in the way of full […]
Read more »Georgian Co-Investment Fund
January 22nd, 2016
Courtesy of OZY, an interesting look at the Republic of Georgia: George Bachiashvili always seems to get ahead of himself. He started school at 4, opened his first business (an Internet café) at 13 and finished high school at 15. But with his more recent spate of successes, there’s been a certain stately sugar daddy […]
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.