Power of Capital: An Adventure Capitalist's Journey to a Sustainable Future

by Asha Mehta

Overview

Explore and understand how investment capital is transforming the world’s most critical emerging markets

In Power of Capital: An Adventure Capitalist’s Journey to a Sustainable Future, distinguished author and Chief Investment Officer at Global Delta Capital, Asha Mehta, shares a simultaneously daring and heartening exploration of rapidly evolving emerging markets. Delivering equal doses of business discussion and geopolitical insight, the author examines the changes gripping the globe and why the average person—and investor—should care.

The book provides an on-the-ground perspective informed by the author’s personal experiences and visits to far-flung regions of the world. It also shares incisive commentary on issues crucial to continuing global economic growth, including terrorism and instability, corruption and autocracy, and sustainable investing.

Power of Capital offers:

• Illuminating insights of China’s new role as a global economic powerhouse
• Pioneering perspectives of how sustainable investing delivers both alpha and impact
• Explorations of how globalization and technology disrupt companies and sectors
• In-depth discussions of data’s new and central role as the primary store and creator of value in the modern economy
• The case for women as the greatest emerging market in the world

A page-turning read from a singular and worldly generational leader, Power of Capital: An Adventure Capitalist’s Journey to a Sustainable Future offers a unique and thought-provoking trip to the globe’s most fascinating emerging markets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781119906032
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/25/2022
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	706,049
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

ASHA MEHTA, CFA, is Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Global Delta Capital. Named a “Brilliant Quant” and Top 10 Women in Asset Management, she has managed and deployed some of the largest and most pioneering investment strategies in emerging markets and sustainable investing.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

List chapter number and chapter title below

Chapter 1: China: What Is an Emerging Market?

Overview of opportunities and risks. Is China an Emerged Market?

Chapter 2: Vietnam: Past and Future Megatheme

Contrasting Old Economy and New Economy drivers from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh

Chapter 3: A Pathway to Emergence

Global Flows: Spotlight on Saudi Arabia, the greatest story that nobody knows

Chapter 4: Submerging Markets? Corruption and Autocracy

Eastern Europe’s challenges and Romania’s unexpected rise

Chapter 5: Terrorism and Instability

When markets become un-investable: North Africa & the Middle East

Chapter 6: Harnessing Domestic Driven Demand

India’s unique opportunity for Sustainable Growth

Chapter 7: Data Is the New Oil

Africa Needs (venture funding); China Feeds (seed capital)

Chapter 8: 21st-Century Investing: Reimagining Capitalism

Transforming economies and livelihoods from Bogota to Brasilia

Chapter 9: The Next Half: The Queens of Wall Street

The largest emerging market in the world is women

Conclusion

Index