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BY EDWARD ROBINSON SPECIAL REPORT: EMERGING MARKETS 38 Defying the Turmoil South Korea, China and the Gulf nations lead our annual ranking of developing markets—amid a rout that has hit two of the BRICs. BY SARMAD KHAN 64 44 The Deal Chaser Michael Kim has built MBK Partners into North Asia’s largest independent private-equity firm. BY CATHY CHAN AND YOOLIM LEE 50 What’s Driving Mexico? The answer is cars. With global automakers rapidly expanding, investors pick the country to outperform. BY BEN BAIN 54 Land of Promise 72 78 Despite Nigeria’s widespread violence and poverty, some money managers say now is the time to take a stake in the country. BY GAVIN SERKIN 60 Africa: Beyond the Clichés Billionaire Mo Ibrahim is compiling the facts he says investors need to make smart choices. BY EDWARD ROBINSON 84 64 Cyprus Calling Two years after a financial crisis, the island’s biggest banks are luring investors from New York and Moscow. 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INVESTMENT PRODUCTS: NOT FDIC INSURED • NO BANK GUARANTEE • MAY LOSE VALUE FN1410882 Editor’s View EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, BLOOMBERG NEWS Matthew Winkler The Bond EXECUTIVE EDITOR Ronald Henkoff MANAGING EDITOR Engineer Dan Ferrara CREATIVE DIRECTOR Siung Tjia THE FINANCIAL ENGINEERS who created the investment instru- ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR ments that would play such a toxic role in the global economic crisis Michael S. Serrill DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY gave both finance and engineering a bad name. The credit-default Brenda Milis swap, originally designed as a kind of insurance for bank loans, mu- SENIOR EDITORS tated into a monster that aggravated risk instead of mitigating it— Robert S. Dieterich William Hawley impelling, among other things, a $182 billion bailout of American Stryker McGuire (London) International Group Inc. by the U.S. government. Gail Connor Roche Joel Weber Well, the CDS is back, and this time, as Edward Robinson reports, ‘We’ve finally EDITOR-AT-LARGE figured out a financial innovator John “Mac” McQuown plans to embed it inside a Robert Friedman corporate bond (“WHIZ KID,” page 26).