Mondial (Dubai) LLC In-house Publication

Welcome to the March issue of Mondial Money, Mondial Dubai’s client newsletter designed to give investors clear and incisive knowledge from the professionals at the heart of the financial services industry.

This month’s Viewpoint feels that the majority of investors will have enjoyed a reasonable start to 2011, as equity and credit markets generally advanced despite there being no shortage of bad news for markets to latch onto. Those gains are probably, say RMB, a good indicator of overall market sentiment.
Focus asks if “frontier markets” – the 31 countries that are not included in the emerging markets category – are the Next Big Thing for investors to latch onto? Most of these markets are currently well below their peaks of 2007 and 2008 so its hardly surprising they are on many investors radars at present. Within Focus, RMB gives an overview of this “unknown – and perhaps untamed – animal appropriate.”