Zinc or swim in Yemen
Peter Bartlett and the birth of Exotix
WHEN IN PYONGYANG, do as the North Koreans do. For business travellers, this involves the mandatory purchase of a large bunch of flowers on arrival at the airport on the twice-weekly flight from Beijing. It then involves a direct trip from the airport to the city-centre statue of Kim Il Sung, where you are obliged to lay your flowers and bow in deference to the deceased leader.
"Culturally, it is like going back to some strange eastern civilization," says Peter Bartlett (right in picture), managing director of Exotix, and a leading expert on North Korean and Cuban debt.
Exotix certainly lives up to its name. In Cuba and North Korea, two of the world’s last communist outposts, it could hardly have chosen more unusual settings from which to make money on the capital markets. There is only one...
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