JEFFREY C. HOOKE is Managing Director of Hooke Associates, LLC, an investment banking firm based in Vienna, Virginia. He was formerly director of Emerging Markets Partnership (a $4 billion fund focusing on emerging markets), principal investment officer of the World Bank Group, and an investment banker with Lehman Brothers and Schroder Wertheim. Mr. Hooke is also the author of Security Analysis on Wall Street: A Comprehensive Guide to Today's Valuation Methods and M&A: A Practical Guide to Doing the Deal (both from Wiley).
Introduction.
What is an Emerging Market?
Business Climate.
What Attracts Multinational Firms to the Emerging Markets?
The Export Platform.
Reason for U.S. Firms to Avoid Emerging Markets.
Portfolio Investment.
Valuation Case Study.
Commercial Lending and Fixed Income Investment in the Emerging Markets.
Foreign Lenders and Troubled Borrowers.
Latin America.
Asia.
Eastern Europe.
Africa.
Closing Thoughts on Emerging Markets.
Notes.
Index.