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In investing, developed markets or developed economies are those countries that are thought to be the most developed and therefore […]

By M Guliyev | 01 Sep 13 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, North America, Statistics, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Syria and the Limits of Comparison

By Robert D. Kaplan, Stratfor, Because so many war plans simply do not survive the reality of war itself, each […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 31 Aug 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Wedding Bells in Romania

I was invited to attend the wedding of one of our Romanian staff in June, and I jumped at the […]

By Aidualc | 30 Aug 13 | Also posted in Eastern Europe, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

An Emerging IT Hub: Lviv, Ukraine

This article is a response to Tetyana Salo, “Future at Home” (in Ukrainian language), Lvivska Poshta, No. 42 (1417), August […]

By Vladimir Vepryev | | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Private Equity | Comments (0)

Pre-emerging markets

The term, pre-emerging markets is a standard term for the smaller, and/or less-developed — yet still investable — equity markets […]

By M Guliyev | 29 Aug 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Investment Wisdom, Latin America | Comments (0)

Obama’s Bluff

By George Friedman, Stratfor, Images of multiple dead bodies emerged from Syria last week. It was asserted that poison gas […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 28 Aug 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

In China, an Unprecedented Demographic Problem Takes Shape

From Stratfor, Summary Chinese society is on the verge of a structural transformation even more profound than the long and […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 26 Aug 13 | Also posted in Asia, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

3rd investment anniversary of BEF fund‏

Balkan Emerging Frontiers Fund was established in April 2010, and began investing on August 1st of the same year. On […]

By BEFFund | | Also posted in Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Private Equity, Statistics, Stocks | Comments (0)

Foreign moviegoers are superheroes to Hollywood

By Tom DiChristopher, CNBC Comic book superheroes may be an American creation, but these days they are earning their keep […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Latin America, North America, Private Equity, Statistics, Stocks, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Australia’s mining boom rolls on for Chinese entrepreneur in the outback

  Australia’s mining boom rolls on for Chinese entrepreneur in the outback                 […]

By Oracle | 25 Aug 13 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Private Equity | Comments (0)