Archive for June, 2017

Pakistan: The Next Asian Tiger?
June 3rd, 2017

Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on Pakistan’s new “emerging market” status: Pakistan is on track. Against the backdrop of its long fight against terrorism over the past 15 years, Pakistan has achieved an economic milestone — gaining the status of an “emerging market” in MSCI’s latest review. MSCI will add Pakistan to the Emerging Market […]

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The Ten Fastest Growing Economies Are All Emerging Markets
June 2nd, 2017

Via ValueWalk, commentary on frontier market “myths”: Although frontier markets are a small subset of the emerging market universe, we think they represent an important constituency that offer some compelling potential opportunities. Here, I’ve invited my colleague Carlos Hardenberg, senior vice president and director of frontier markets strategies at Templeton Emerging Markets Group, to outline […]

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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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