This chapter contains useful facts for visitors, a list of suggested hotels, as well as phone numbers for important contacts, including ministries, foreign missions and airlines. It also contains features pieces on Mongolian fine artist, G. Zanzabar, and the country’s unique tourism opportunities in its rural expanses.
Recording steady expansion, the Mongolian insurance sector’s prospects are good despite the difficulties faced more generally in the economy. Sector indicators, such as premiums per person, premiums per capita, total capital and total compensation, also suggest that the country’s insurance companies are in relatively good shape and growing fast. As in many developing countries, awareness and...
Articles & Analysis | Garments & textiles from The Report: Mongolia 2015
THE COMPANY: Gobi was established in 1981 with Japanese economic and technical assistance to process natural goat and camel hair and produce cashmere and camel wool products from these fibres. The company has since developed into one of the five largest cashmere producers in the world, and currently employees around 1000 people....
Interviews & Viewpoints | D. Angar, CEO, Mongolian Stock Exchange (MSE): Interview from The Report: Mongolia 2015
What efforts are under way to develop Mongolia’s capital markets and make the MSE function better?
Articles & Analysis | Mongolian Mining Corporation from The Report: Mongolia 2015
THE COMPANY: Mongolian Mining Corporation (MMC) is a coking coal production and export company headquartered in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and was the first local coking coal producer to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company participates in the mining, processing and manufacturing of coal products, and owns and operates an...
Articles & Analysis | Key reforms to Mongolia's capital markets regulation promise better days ahead from The Report: Mongolia 2015
The capital markets in Mongolia have benefitted of late from a series of positive reforms, key hirings and the introduction of new legislation. Together, these measures promise to help breathe life back into the country’s stocks and bonds. After almost four years of declining equity prices, more than half a decade with virtually no initial public offerings (IPOs) and...