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Forget BRIC: Your Portfolio Needs TICK

Investments are about the future and not about the present or the past. Of the 4 TICK Countries, Taiwan, Israel and Korea have dark geopolitical clouds and not much in terms of natural resources. Chile is the exception in that they don't have much geopolitical risk and the country has sizable natural resources.
Of the 4 BRICK countries, all four have significant natural resources and large internal markets. They do have current poliical risks, but not insurmounatble in comparison to their size/potential.