Emerging Market Investment in Qatar
The market for investment has been growing with a range of possibilities emerging. Qatar for example, is currently hot in the media topic as it is settling deals with other international multimillion dollar companies. This has been a deal that many companies have expected to happen in the last couple of years due to the growth of the company.
Qatar is a prime emerging market investment destination, which had the world's highest economic growth rate in 2010 at 19.4%. With a population of 1.4 million and very low unemployment, it is not your average emerging market, yet it technically is still considered a frontier market.
This distinction is drawing investor's attention, because next month the index provider MSCI will be announcing whether the gas and oil rich nation's stock exchange will be upgraded from 'frontier' to 'emerging' status. The prospect for such an upgrade is just one of the reasons why investors are flocking to Qatari stocks, which they expect to make further gains should an upgrade occur.
The country has been under review for several years, but has failed to make the cut before due to restrictions on foreign ownership of companies that have not been significantly reformed. For more information you can read about the latest investment progressions here.