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Investing in the Pyramids

February 10, 2011
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Investing in the Pyramids

If you know almost nothing about emerging market stocks, you know that they come with high risk attached, including political risk, corruption, structural weakness and currency exposure. But for some investors, even emerging markets are too tame, and for these people the lure of frontier markets can be strong. A frontier market is one that hasn’t yet achieved the economic development, transparency or free flow of capital to qualify as emerging. Want an example? Well how about Egypt? Egypt has been dominating headlines for weeks, and if you want to see what political turmoil looks like when you translate...

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