L’Oréal: Prettying Up Colombia
November 3rd, 2012 Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on L’Oréal’s entree into Colombia and its plan to use that nation as launch pad into other parts of South America:  Colombia’s female beauty is [...]
Future Is At The Frontier
November 1st, 2012 Via What Investment, a view on frontier markets from BlackRock: Sam Vecht, director and portfolio manager at investment firm BlackRock, has hotly tipped frontier markets to outperform emerging [...]
Myanmar
October 31st, 2012 Via Capitalist Exploits, some commentary on Myanmar: Hot money (or in the case of Myanmar, hot money investors) will ruminate on how to invest, but will likely leave unsatisfied, as there are [...]
Ecopetrol: Peaceful Growth
October 31st, 2012 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a detailed look at Ecopetrol: Never mind its recent fall in profits. Many energy companies would drool at Ecopetrol’s impressive growth rate so far. Since 2008, [...]
The African Cities That Will “Matter”
October 31st, 2012 Via The Financial Times, an interesting list of the emerging African cities that will make a difference in the years ahead: As beyondbrics has reported before, the expansion of emerging market cities [...]
Pemex/Petrobas: A Tale Of Two State Oil Companies
October 31st, 2012 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at  Pemex and Petrobras: Shares of Petrobras fell sharply on Monday after the Brazilian state company reported a 12 per cent year-on-year decline in [...]

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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.