Booming Mongolia Mine, all mine
“GOIN’ to OT?” drawls Andy, a burly tattooed man with that worldly air common to those who have done time in the American army. The gate at Incheon airport in South Korea is packed with travellers, mainly Mongolian expatriates on their way home, waiting to board a flight to Ulaanbaatar. Andy’s is a fair guess as to the destination of one of the few other Western passengers. “OT”—Oyu Tolgoi, or “Turquoise Hill”—is in the middle of nowhere, a desolate spot in the Gobi desert, another hour-and-a-half’s flight south of Ulaanbaatar...
read moreA Mongolian IPO
Last Thursday I spoke about leveraging capitalism. I made the point, with a bit of help from Chris’s last post, “Leverage – Why Here? Why Now? that Mongolian real estate might be a good long-term speculation. Over the last several months we’ve gotten to know a few of Mongolia’s brightest entrepreneurs. Real estate has been a big focus for most of them. Without a doubt, one of the most successful has been Lee Cashell. You can read an extensive interview that I conducted with Lee in our special report onInvesting in Mongolia. If you don’t have it you can download it here. I also...
read moreAsia Pacific Properties JSC Commences Trading on the Mongolian Stock Exchange
Pursuant to a shareholder meeting convened on December 11, 2011; Sudut JSC, a company listed on the Mongolian Stock Exchange, has passed a shareholder resolution to change the company’s name to Asia Pacific Properties JSC. The company’s ticker has also been changed from UNH to APP. During the meeting the shareholders also unanimously approved the injection of a 100% interest in the Rural Development Corporation LLC (“RDC”) and the Oasis luxury residential development project into the newly named company, both of which were acquired from Asia Pacific Investment Partners...
read moreWhy And How To Invest In Real Estate
Real estate could be the best way to have an edge on the growth of the Mongolia economy. During my 12 days in Mongolia, this was a recurring theme. While I was there, Silk Road Management (a company that shares the same CEO as local brokerage Eurasia Capital) launched Ulan Bator’s first property index. Throughout my visit, members of all three real estate investment organizations below that I met with cited a 30-fold increase in Kazakhstan real estate prices prior to Kazakhstan’s bubble bursting in 2008. The two times I met private equity managers visiting Mongolia (both times,...
read more“Kumai Energy to seek…” Mergermarket, 1st Nov, by Ben Scent.
Kumai Energy, which is exploring for coal in Mongolia and Indonesia, will seek to raise AUD 7m in an initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange, a source familiar with the situation said. The company mandated CPS Securities to arrange the listing, the source said. It aims to hit the market in December, he added. Kumai Energy owns a 25% stake in the Nuurst Khotgor coal exploration project in Mongolia. It will earn a stake of up to 60% under an earn-in agreement with its joint venture partner, Asia Pacific Investment Partners. It has also signed an agreement to buy a 51%...
read moreWorking in Mongolia: Getting warmer
Mongolia is famous for many things, and being a hotspot of construction activity is not among them – but perhaps it should be. Thanks to a booming economy, the country is developing at a rate of knots. Building finds out why it’s well worth braving the cold Must be prepared to travel. If you want to find the best emerging property markets in the world, that is. And as you plan your itinerary on the global map, you can firmly put a pin on Mongolia. Yes, Mongolia. It may sound like a bit of a left field suggestion, but just a little investigation into Mongolia’s resources...
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