by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 9, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Economic news out of Latin America is grim: Brazil is in the midst of a recession and Argentina has experienced its own financial troubles. Commodity prices have plunged, and capital outflows from the region have increased this year. But there are two bright spots in...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 8, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Given the attention global investors and financial media put on China, it can be easy to forget that there are other emerging markets in Asia in which to invest. There are many opportunities in Southeast Asia, in the 10 countries that are part of the Association of...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 7, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Lewis Howes dreamed that one day he would play professional football. After graduating from university, he attended NFL tryouts and eventually wound up playing professionally in the Arena League. But after several injuries, he was sidelined from his career. At first,...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 7, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Multilateralism is back: The United States and 11 other countries reached an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Despite its many advantages, however, in the coming weeks you will hear increasingly from the deal’s critics: Ford Motor Company...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 5, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
When it comes to investing in emerging markets, there are the haves and the have-nots, and right now it’s the have-nots that present the most compelling opportunities right now. The “haves” in emerging markets are the nations such as Brazil and...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 2, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
With Hurricane Joaquin bearing down on the east coast, investors are evaluating its potential impact on markets. Sectors that could be most affected by the storm include construction and engineering companies, insurance firms and hardware stores. For example, Home...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 2, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Peru’s stock exchange has avoided being demoted to frontier-market status for the time being, but it’s not out of the woods yet. Morgan Stanley Capital International, which manages the MSCI Emerging Market Index, this week decided to continue classifying...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 1, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Just as “emerging markets” is thrown around by financial media, another term, “frontier markets,” is increasingly bandied about. But new and even established investors may not know what it means, perhaps assuming that emerging and frontier...
by Kabir Sehgal | Sep 30, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
The term “emerging markets” gets thrown around a lot in the financial media and by economists. But people new to investing may wonder exactly what it means. “Emerging markets” was initially coined by Antoine van Agtmael — then at...
by Kabir Sehgal | Sep 29, 2015 | All, Op-Ed
Almost everyone is jumping into the online lending space. There is Kabbage for small business loans, SoFi which is known for student loans, Prosper for personal peer-to-peer derived loans, Fundera an aggregator of small business loans and Kiva for microfinance loans....
