Richard Kang is Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research at Emerging Global Advisors LLC, an investment fund and research advisory firm specializing in emerging markets. Their initial product line will be the first comprehensive family of emerging market sector exchange traded funds. Richard, who formerly blogged at The Beta Brief (http://www.thebetabrief.com/), was also recently involved in investment and risk consultation for a variety of fund management companies and asset allocators. Previous to that, he was president & CIO of a Toronto based boutique discretionary investment counseling firm that advised both private individual clients as well as institutions (primarily hedge funds). He first started in the industry with a small firm trading index derivatives and managing long-short US equity portfolios that applied the use of the earliest ETFs. Richard may be reached by email: rkang[at]egshares[dot]com.