Frontier Market Investment

Investment and commercial opportunities in the “frontier” countries are immense. A large part of global growth is taking place in the frontier markets. However, investing in these markets is complex and rife with challenges. Most businesses are family owned and with poor governance. Challenges are cultural, structural, regulatory, and those of management bandwidth. There is the challenge of how to build the companies successfully, while keeping reputations intact in the areas of social and environmental compliances. And of course, the challenges of how to exit the investments at the appropriate price and through the appropriate suitor remain. In this course we will explore these opportunities and complexities with real life investment cases focusing especially on Bangladesh.