Hide Or Seek: Tales Of Risks and Opportunities In Emerging Markets

By Harry Broadman (original source Forbes) 

“As corporates, banks, institutional investors, and private equity funds scour the globe for new investment opportunities with high returns, inevitably emerging markets come into play. No big surprise here since their average growth rates in real terms have been multiples of those of advanced countries for the past two decades, and due to secular changes in the structure of the world economy, are destined to continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

But the nagging issue, which almost always wins the day, is that despite the sizeable potential returns seemingly presented by these fast growing markets, the perceived high risks of doing business in them undercut the prospects for actual consummation of investment deals.”

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