Georgian Co-Investment Fund
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 [...]
Mozambique: IMF Predicts Gigantic Growth Rate
Via AllAfrica, an interesting report on Mozambique’s potential growth: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that Mozambique’s average growth rate during the first half of the [...]
Somalia: Change Coming?
Via the Cipher Brief, an updated look at Somalia: Since Somalia’s independence in 1960, its relationship with the U.S. has been—for lack of a better metaphor—on a roller coaster that travels up [...]
North Korea: Newest Frontier For A Daredevil Investor
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on James Passin, a hedge fund manager at Firebird Management: He searched for oil in the badlands of Somalia and fueled a stock market boom in Mongolia. [...]
Frontier Markets In Focus: 2016 And Beyond
Via Mark Mobius’ blog, an interesting look at some investment opportunities in frontier markets (the less-developed subset of the emerging market universe) with an eye on a few countries that [...]
TAPI Pipeline: A Path To Peace In Afghanistan?
Via the New Yorker, a look at the TAPI pipeline: When, on December 10th, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani returned to Kabul from Islamabad, he was greeted by a Taliban attack that killed more than fifty [...]

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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.