Archive for December, 2016

Inside Kazakhstan’s Incredible Economic Transformation

Via Forbes, an interesting look at Kazakhstan: Suitably, the headquarters of National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna is located in a pair of opulent gold-mirrored towers that rise up from the heart of Astana, the 19-year-old planned capital of Kazakhstan. Standing out stark and meaningfully from the menagerie of futuristic, contorted, anachronistic, and otherwise mismatching architecture of […]

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MTN + Irancell = Profit Opportunity At Last?

Via Techrasa, some commentary on MTN’s operations in Iran: After becoming the second largest Mobile Network Operator in Iran, MTN now wants to invest in e-commerce in the country. MTN has been working in Iran since 2005 with its 49% share in Irancell, the second largest Mobile Network Operator in the country. Since then with the […]

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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.