The only comprehensive guide to reaping big returns investing in the hottest new growth markets This book makes a compelling case that, just as today's well-rounded portfolio includes emerging market funds, tomorrow's well-rounded portfolio will include frontier market funds. More importantly, it alerts you to the vast opportunities and potential pitfalls of investing in frontier markets while providing expert advice and guidance on how to research and invest in the most promising frontier growth markets. Widely considered to be the next emerging markets, frontier markets, such as those of certain sub-Saharan African, Eastern European, Asian, and Central and South American countries, are showing strong signs of reaching economic critical mass. If you are an investor on the lookout for authoritative, actionable information on the next big investment opportunity, this book is for you. * Provides sector-by-sector analyses that let you assess opportunities and risks in each frontier market * Provides strategies and tools for determining the most efficient methods for executing, monitoring, and exiting investments * Guides you through the wide diversity within frontier markets, showing how to differentiate countries on the basis of economic development and wealth distribution and other factors

Clues for succeeding in crisis from 50 graduates of the "School of Hard Knocks" PAUL BATES & AL EMID How would you like to spend an entire weekend with 50 highly successful grads of the School of Hard Knocks? Just you and these 50 interesting and changed people, all to yourself, all completely focused on you, and on giving you the advice you desperately need. What would ask them? WHAT I HAVE LEARNED SO FAR. . . delivers a weekend of insight in 130 pages (just right for a weekend read), full of compassionate and candid dialogue - each page offering reflection, guidance and inspiration. WHAT I HAVE LEARNED SO FAR. . . asks the question "If you knew when you were 25 what you know now ..." and then tells the reader in an entertaining narrative, the breathtaking, heartbreaking and often heartwarming stories that will show you how to navigate through personal dilemmas when experience is lacking. Against the backdrop of a crisis in each individual's life, you will explore the sources of strength he or she found in dealing with it, the solutions tried and discarded and the actions taken that provided successful resulting outcomes. Most important, you?ll learn of personal savvy in the face of formidable odds as the authors probe further with this question: "What would you suggest to anyone else confronting the same issue?"

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