Diego Stendardo

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."
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