Ted Cominos: Emerging Markets

Ted Cominos is a partner in the Chicago-area law firm of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, which he joined in January of 2016. He has more than twenty years of experience in the law, including ten years practicing in Europe.

He also has an MBA in International management, and is known for his strong commercial and financial acumen. He has written extensively about international business and financial matters, including an article called “Emerging Market Investment – Central & Eastern Europe,” co-written with Cristina Audran-Proca, a London-based colleague at Faegre Baker Daniels. Global markets, they wrote, are beginning to improve after five tough years. “Why the recent recovery? Firstly, because of largely favourable macro-economic winds – commodity prices recovered, US actions having a bearing on emerging markets trade were not as negative as feared, [and] the dollar and US interest rates remained weak. Also, probably because opportunistic and not seasoned emerging markets investor[s] fled, those investors that remained were likely more resilient to the ups and downs that are unavoidable when investing in emerging markets.”

Not all emerging markets are equal, Ted Cominos and his co-author cautioned. Those of Central and Eastern Europe appeared to be amongst the most promising, and should offer compelling opportunities over the next ten years.