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  • Ukraine: Overlooked, Yet a Promising Emerging Market
    Well, a lot of interesting points here - it looks like the main theme here is "Avoid Ukraine" because of this and that - BUT - imagine this thread was shifted ten years backwards and substitute Ukraine with Russia, Brazil, India, China...i know these are much bigger countries with lots of natural resources, but back then a lot of people was raising the same questions about politics, infrastructures, energy, inflation etc etc - the point is, once an economy is in its infancy it's easier to overweight the risks and overlook the opportunities.
    To michaelschn: come on! Climate the big difference? What about the baltic states, scandinavian states or Canada then? they should all be living in the dark ages according to you. Besides, back in soviet times, Ukraine was providing most of the crops for all of the CCCP. Open Wikipedia and read about the climate in Crimea - you'll find out something interesting.
    Once again, some of you are missing the point: we're dealing with Frontier Markets here, so avoiding risk shoud be taken out of the picture and thus risk shouldn't be made the case against investing in a frontier country. What i was stressing is that, compared to other frontier markets, Ukraine is overlooked; i am not complaining for the lack of a single country etf or fund, although i would like to see one, but for the lack of interest from the financial community in a country that has a lot of upside potential.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
    - Sir Winston Churchill -
    Jun 17 04:03 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Ukraine: Overlooked, Yet a Promising Emerging Market
    Well netscorer, i know investing in Ukraine implies a lot of risk, but aren't we talking about Frontier Markets? Are Pakistan, Nigeria or Oman any better regarding corruption, political instability and the like? Yet they're all included in the Frontier 150 index - If i had to place a bet on a single state, for sure i'd choose Ukraine in place of the above mentioned countries.
    Jun 16 10:34 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Claymore Launches First Ever Frontier ETF; PowerShares, Van Eck Close Behind
    I am disappointed in not seeing any stocks from Ukraine in the new Frontier etfs - Ukraine is one of the most promising country in the frontier world and it's being completely overlooked
    Jun 13 08:45 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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