frontier markets

An analysis of global Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) ownership revealed that less than 40% of the total supply is considered liquid, with a growing number of people using the cryptocurrency as a store of value or an instrument of speculation. Despite Bitcoin's widespread adoption, the majority of...

Plenty of investors the tale of woe pertaining to emerging markets equities and exchange-traded funds last year. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Indx (ETF) (NYSE: EEM), the second largest emerging markets ETF by assets, slumped nearly 17 percent last year, but frontier markets stocks and the...

Frontier markets are on the outer fringe of the international investment community, and are considered less developed than emerging markets.  In addition, they generally involve countries with questionable political and economic stability due to leadership missteps.  Many of these countries...