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Yiannis G Mostrous

With his experience in  international market analysis and venture financing, Yiannis G. Mostrous is  more than just a world traveler; he’s also an expert on identifying investment opportunities in emerging and overlooked markets—the places most of us only see on television.

As an analyst with Artemel International, Yiannis worked with developmental  institutions to promote business development in the Mediterranean, while as an associate in the venture capital Finance & Investment Associates was  involved in analyzing start up companies’ business plans evaluating their  potential while bringing together worthy candidates and angel investor groups.

He also worked as a consultant for brokers in Intersec Securities, a brokerage firm in Athens, Greece, where he did primary research and solicited business from high net worth clients. More recently, Yiannis coauthored a book on investment opportunities in Asia, The Silk Road to Riches: How You Can Profit by Investing in Asia’s Newfound Prosperity.

Since joining KCI, Yiannis has dedicated himself to helping  individual investors bolster their returns and give their portfolios an international flavor. In his financial advisory The Silk Road Investor, Yiannis explains the most profitable facets of emerging global economies such as China and India, while Vital  Resource Investor, a subscription-based service, seeks opportunities for equity investors in the global natural resource markets.
 
Yiannis has an MBA from Marymount University with a major in Finance and a BBA from Radford University focusing on investments in natural resource markets around the globe. He is also a veteran of the Hellenic Navy in the Landing Ships Command Office.


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Following is an excerpt from a recent company press release.

Summer Musings

We’re still far off recent highs, and plenty of risk remains, but the Asian rally is still running strong.

Think Straight on Asia

According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2008 is a year of danger. And although superstition isn’t good company for an investor, last year was quite rewarding, just as the Chinese Zodiac forecast.

Asia for the Long Term

Investors are starting to panic. But if the market deterioration accelerates, the opportunity to buy into Asia will be comparable to that of 2001. Back then, I recommended Asian stocks to only a handful of investors who cared to listen. Luckily, the recommendations played out quite well, and I’m expecting the same outcome this time around.

The largest oil exporters are the Middle East, the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Africa. The Middle East alone accounts for nearly 36 percent of global oil exports; the FSU and Africa each account for roughly 15 percent. These three regions taken together are responsible for two-thirds of global oil trade.

June has traditionally been a weak month for Asian investment. On the other hand, staying away from the market from May until the end of August--as the old adage suggests--hasn’t been very rewarding either. During the summer months, bargains arise and portfolios can be positioned for the customarily stronger periods in Asian markets, namely late September through late January.

As the death toll mounted to more than 40,000 and an estimated 5 million were left homeless from the Sichuan province earthquake, Chinese companies began totaling the natural disaster’s financial price tag.

Ahead of the vote for Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin set forth plans for a robust macroeconomic financial policy, reigniting the stock market to 2,280--a 3 percent gain--crossing the 2,200 mark for the first time since January as investor confidence swelled. Putin’s primary goal: Reduce the tax burden on the oil sector to stimulate production and crude oil refining and lower inflation to single digits within the next few years.

The most powerful stories in fiction, as well as in investing, have always been simple: love, hate and war for the former; demand, supply and basic needs for the latter. And no story fits the bill better than food and agriculture, for which demand is ever present.

Investor sentiment continues on a downward spiral while the US economy gradually enters a recession and the labor market rolls over. Provided that the financial crisis can be effectively controlled and the repercussions translate into a relatively shallow recession, an equally weak economic recovery can be expected thereafter.

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