Mongolia: A Backdoor To North Korea?
Via GlobalPost, an interesting article on Mongolia’s relationship with North Korea: They come and they go without much international fanfare: delegations of North Korean ministers in Mongolia, [...]
Private Equity: The Last Frontier
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on private equity’s interest in emerging markets: A year ago, who would have thought Myanmar would be in the spotlight on the private [...]
Mongolia’s Economic Challenge
Via The Diplomat, a report on Mongolia efforts to leverage widespread international interest in its Tavan Tolgoi coal mine to diversify its economy: Mongolia has repeatedly insisted that it wants to [...]
Laos: Land Of A Million Opportunities
Via the New Straits Times, a report on Laos: I have heard anecdotes of how the court system in Lao PDR (better known as Laos) can descend into a bidding war where parties to a lawsuit ‘pay to [...]
Forget the BRICs. Invest In The TIPTPSNC
Via Quartz, an interesting look at the next “wave” of emerging markets: A new phase of emerging market investing, “The Third Coming,” is now truly upon us. The first was a dizzying [...]
Most Promising Growth Markets For Next 20 Years
Courtesy of Maplecroft, a report on 30 growth markets with the most promising prospects over the next two decades: Maplecroft’s new Growth Markets Index (GMI), which evaluates the economic [...]

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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.