Frontier Investor: How to Prosper in the Next Emerging Markets

Where are the next decade's greatest investment opportunities? In today's undiscovered emerging markets: the frontier markets. These markets account for 71 of the world's 75 fastest-growing economies and 19% of the world's GDP--yet many investors largely ignore them. Fueled by access to technology and information, frontier markets are emerging even faster than their predecessors, making them an essential component of a globally diversified portfolio. 

Nobody understands frontier markets better than Marko Dimitrijević, and in Frontier Investor, he shows through colorful case studies, compelling charts, and fascinating travel anecdotes that it is not only possible but prudent to invest in these unfamiliar and undervalued markets. Dimitrijević explains how frontier markets like Nigeria, Panama, and Bangladesh are poised to follow a path similar to countries like China, India and Russia that were considered exotic two decades ago. He then details a strategy for how and where to invest--directly or indirectly--to profit from frontier's growth. Dimitrijević covers the political and other risks of investing in these markets, the megatrends that promise exciting investment opportunities in the coming years, and the prospects for countries beyond the frontier such as Myanmar, Cuba, and even Iran.

Frontier Investor opens up a whole new world, and world view, to the broad investing public.    

Marko Dimitrijević is one of the world's foremost emerging markets experts, with over 35 years of professional investing experience. A pioneer in conducting on-the-ground due diligence, Mr. Dimitrijević, CFA has traveled to more than 100 countries. He has invested in over 120 emerging or frontier markets, and was one of the earliest Western investors in China, Russia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia. Currently chairman of investment group Volta Global, from 1995 to 2015 he managed one of the world's best performing emerging markets funds. He has won numerous awards including "Top 25 Mid-Size Hedge Funds" by Bloomberg in 2014, "Top 100 Hedge Funds" by Barron's in 2011, "Top 10 EM Hedge Funds" by Bloomberg in 2010, and "Global Macro Fund of the Year" by Absolute Return magazine in 2007.
 
He has been featured in the world's most respected financial and business publications including Barron's, Bloomberg, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, Institutional Investor, Reuters, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Worth, and he is featured in the books Inside the House of Money and Investing with the Hedge Fund Giants.
 
Mr. Dimitrijević holds an MBA degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He is a graduate of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He and his family live in Miami, Florida.
 
 
Timothy Mistele, CFA has more than 30 years' experience in investor relations, marketing, portfolio management, and financial analysis at several leading global financial firms, including 19 years working with Marko Dimitrijević. He earned an MBA degree from Stanford and a bachelor's degree in economics, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Princeton. Mr. Mistele holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He and his family live in Miami, Florida.