This document discusses several topics related to global capital markets and trends in international political economy, including: 1) How Coca-Cola's venturing and emerging brands team stays ahead of changing consumer tastes. 2) Angola launching a $1.6 billion Africa infrastructure fund and an Arabian bank expanding its trade finance portfolio. 3) The need to integrate political and economic understanding in global capital markets through instruments like sovereign wealth funds. 4) How pension funds and institutional investors are financing innovation and infrastructure projects. 5) Opportunities for value creation and accessing new consumer bases in developing countries through financial products and venture capital.

1. Jim deWilde Intro GLOBALCAPITAL MARKETSAND NEWTRENDS IN
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
January 12th, 2015 ROTMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

2.  Ashby Monk
https://twitter.com/sovereignfund
 Zachary Karabell
https://twitter.com/zacharykarabell
 Mohamed El-Erian
https://twitter.com/elerianm

3.  THE NEXT BIGTHING: HOW COKE’SVENTURING & EMERGING BRANDS
TEAM STAYS A STEP AHEAD OFTOMORROW’STHIRSTS
http://www.coca-colacompany.com/innovation/the-next-big-thing-how-cokes-venturing-emerging-
brands-team-stays-a-step-ahead-of-tomorrows-thirsts

5.  Angola launches $1.6bnAfrica infrastructure
fund http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a224631a-8087-11e4-9907-
00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3NygILMc1

6. http://www.tradearabia.com/news/BANK_271896.html

7.  Upward mobility and economic growth

8. Colombia Is One Of LatinAmerica’s Most
Promising NewTech Hubs
Posted Nov 22, 2014 by Conrad Egusa
(@ConradEgusa)
http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/22/an-overview-of-colombia-one-of-latin-americas-most-promising-new-
tech-hubs/

9.  (a)The integrated understanding of the political and economic
that is now explicitly a part of global capital markets through the
emergence of instruments like sovereign wealth funds;
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 (b) It requires the traditional investments skills as we restructure
the global pension fund and institutional investors as CALPERS
and KHAZANAH become the key part of financing the next
generation of health innovation or financing the design of urban
transportation systems through expanded public transport or the
bet that $ 18 billion dollars invested in Uber is a smart play of
urban transportation logistics;
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 (c) A sense of where value is being created so that a developing
base of consumers in Colombia or Indonesia can be accessed by
new financial products including global venture capital.