Frontier Markets: Investing In Mongolia
Via Forbes, a report on Mongolia: On the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, a nomadic family of herders is sitting outside their ger (the family tent commonly called a “yurt” in the West) watching [...]
Smart Development: How Colombia, Mexico, and Singapore Beat the BRICS
Via Foreign Affairs, an interesting report on the importance of – when comparing emerging economies – considering more than just economic growth rates and examining nations’ [...]
Equatorial Guinea: Squandered Riches
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a detailed look at how the tiny oil-rich African nation of Equatorial Guinea is suffering from the resource curse: Standing nearly five storeys high, the granite [...]
MINT, BRICS, And The Fragile Five
Via the Business Insider, an article on an interesting Venn Diagram tweeted by economist Duncan Weldon: At the moment, everyone’s focused on the group in the center, the Fragile Five, since [...]
Is Cuba Going Capitalist?
Via Ozy, an interesting look at Cuba: Cuba’s new business leaders are as different from the 1950s’ legendary bearded guerrillas as an all-electronic Tesla is from the vintage gas-guzzling Chevys [...]
Beyond China: The Asian Play for Africa
Via Ozy, an interesting look at India’s involvement in Africa: Roses may be red, but when Ramakrishna Karuturi sized up those thorny flowering plants back in the 1990s, he saw only green. It [...]

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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.