Investing in BRIC Countries: Evaluating Risk and Governance in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

 

Investing in BRIC Countries

Evaluating Risk and Governance in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

Authors: Borodina, Svetlana; Shvyrkov, Oleg

ISBN-13: 978-0-07-166406-6

ISBN-10: 0071664068

©2010 | 1st Edition | 368 pages , Hardcover

Status: Active, In Print

Price: US$ 75.00

Chart a course for success in the fertile terrain of BRIC investing!

The world’s largest and fastest-growing emerging markets are those of the BRIC nations—Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Combined, these countries house more than 40 percent of the world’s population, and their respective GDPs are growing at an impressive rate.

This economic success comes partly from a trend toward good corporate governance, a concept virtually unheard of in these four nations just a decade ago. Still, the BRICs have a long way to go. Corruption, doubledealings, and other conflicts of interest are regular business practices for far too many companies. Although investing in BRIC nations can be wildly profitable, you must familiarize yourself with the realities of their corporate governance to avoid catastrophe.

With Investing in BRIC Countries, you are equipped with the best available tool for detecting the signs of poor governance. Edited by Standard & Poor’s® equity research and governance group, it details the group’s highly successful approach to analyzing risks in emerging economies.

 

With case studies illustrating the effectiveness of corporate governance scrutiny, Investing in BRIC Countries examines the economic structure and governance status of each BRIC nation—and then explains how to:

• Detect the malevolent influences of a powerful minority of shareholders
• Protect yourself from misleading or false audits and risk assessments
• Recognize regulatory weaknesses with regards to shareholder rights
• Distinguish effective boards of directors from weak or corrupt ones

As the financial crises in Mexico, Russia, and Asia during the 1990s prove, corporate governance is the pivot on which an emerging market’s success or failure hinges. Before entering one or more BRIC markets, perform the due diligence they require.

Investing in BRIC Countries is the best tool available for mitigating your exposure to risky deals and other problems that can arise when dealing with international companies.

 

About the Authors

Svetlana Borodina (Moscow) is a director of corporate governance at Standard & Poor’s Equity Research, based in Moscow. Her responsibilities include global product management for GAMMA, which measures corporate governance practices in emerging markets. Prior to joining S&P, Svetlana occupied a number of senior executive positions in the area of investor relations and financial communications with TNK-BP and Sibneft oil companies, both based in Moscow.

Oleg Shvyrkov (Moscow) is Associate Director in Standard & Poor’s Governance Services group. Based in Moscow, he acts as methodology and criteria coordinator for the group. He also serves as lead analyst on Corporate Governance Scores and GAMMA Scores on major companies in Russia including, MTS, MDM Bank, EuroChem, and Wimm-Bill-Dann, as well as several other companies in Russia, Kazakhstan and Brazil. He supervises governance-related research performed by the group, including the Transparency & Disclosure surveys, a Governance Infrastructure Reports on the BRIC countries. He holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Organization & Strategy from Tilburg University (Netherlands), and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Economics from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN).

 

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