Asia: Byambasaikhan offers Mongolia a fresh exchange of ideas

Rich in resources, Mongolia has yet to find a way to mine them in such a way to enable the country to throw off its communist legacy. There are high hopes the new head of the state investment bank may be the man for the job.

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Bayanjargal Byambasaikhan, CEO of state-owned investment house Erdenes Mongol

In doing the rounds of Ulaanbaatar, it doesn’t take long to encounter someone who used to work at the Mongolian Stock Exchange.

Former MSE staff seem to be deposited most everywhere across the narrow universe that is Corporate Mongolia; at its handful of banks, its few private equity firms, the central bank and the state-owned mining houses.

With five chief executives and myriad board members since 2010, the MSE is virtually a local version of LinkedIn, a transit lounge of talent.

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