, granted it was an 800 level course).
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. You almost act like our Indian adult-children on here when it comes to Pakistan making any progress in anything. Good luck with so much negativity!!
Allow me to play devils advocate,Thank you for clarifying, but you are discussing a whole different issue all together. If you go to the post number 1 and 5 on this thread, you'll see some content that I copied over from that 1200 page document that I can't post. But its pretty easy to read and know that I am not that smart to make all that statistics crap up (I HATED statistics in college and barely passed it
The following is taken from the post number 5 of this thread. If you read below, we are talking about "Dynamic Linking" of PSX (former KSE) to the global markets. I am sure we have MANY IT guys here, so they can tell you how systems link "Dynamically". That means, you can link systems in a way that they all have access to the SAME data. So I can buy stocks and ETF's here which may belong to Pakistan. Like how I invest into Brazilian stocks or South African ETF's. For example, UBB is a ticker symbol for Unibanco, SDA - Sadia S.A., (a refrigerated and frozen protein products company that also offers processed meats as well), ARA - (Aracruz Celulose S.A. - Paper company), etc.
So let's say, the systems get dynamically connected (like the world runs today between bigger stock exchanges and PSX is added to it), and then, say there is a stock called Dawood Cement (I think there is a company with that name). So the ticker symbol may be DAC.PK or DAC.PSX (just making this part up for reference purposes). So I can be sitting in the US, the UK, in Japan or China, etc, and I can buy this. The system will translate the price into Dollars or into my local currency (however each country regulates this).
And, this is not creating "Indices" with some element of Pakistani stocks. If you didn't know it, some Pakistani ETF's are already available through FTSE and they are expensive as hell due to awesome return they offer. Morgan Stanley ALREADY offers "PAK" which was around $ 14.00 and jumped up to $ 15 not to long ago. Its an index of some Pakistani stocks. We are talking about direct linkage between systems here.
The following research organizations are screaming Pakistani stocks higher futures. I personally am a member of Zacks. One of the best industry and market / stock investment insight and research is conducted by these guys. Seeking Alpha is the next one on the list of getting overall market insight.
Global X Surprises Investors with a Pakistan ETF - April 28, 2015 - Zacks.com
Pakistan's Weight In This ETF Is Set To Soar | Seeking Alpha
The Rise Of Pakistan: Industry Approach Is King - Global X MSCI Pakistan ETF (NYSEARCA
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Below is copied content from post # 5, as you can see, we are talking about direct linking of markets. Not one or two funds.
Objective of the study
The focal objective of this study was to explore dynamic linkages between US, European,
Asian and Pakistan’s stock market which may be very useful for investors,financial
institutions and portfolio managers to utilize their capital across the border in an efficient
and smart manner.
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Devil's don't come near Viper....too much risk of hazard to their poor being. So naturally, they stay away from my posts as I don't write science fiction. I am a numbers and facts guy and everything is calculated, including my headaches and hangovers
Read my post above and my calculations and you'll probably get the idea. The devils should run away after reading the above. By the way, I've been a part of three crashes and recoveries and have seen 4 emerging markets go from 0 to Mach 1.....Pakistan is at about Mach .2.....going onto 1. Whether it takes 5-7 years as the document explained, OR, 10 years, it won't be much longer than that. I know it for a fact, Brazil, China, India are ALL examples of such "economic takeoff"
By the way, someone once said "don't second guess a running operation from an armed chair"......that applies on here. You have facts, examples (calculated which you can verify by googling yourself) and you've heard the overall strategy. Now if you want to second guess and butcher such critical development by marginalizing it, its because you are not a part of it and have never had experience at this level. So as a human, this may be a good opportunity to learn, vs. sounding like an enthusiasts and writing stuff you have no direct experience with (like creating and managing a strategy or a global economy). I am saying this with respect, so not trying to offend you. Sometimes, we should ALL just learn and absorb new stuff. Not counter it without having the experience.
Fair enough, I can't argue with that...mostly because I just deleted most of my arguments accidentally. You win by default
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Where exactly did you read that MS was trying to "Create an Index" for Pakistan? Many indices already exist, including one by MSI called "PAK". And there are Pakistani ETF's going all the way to $ 3000.00 per ETF (way above Google and Amazon and Apple). You and I had that debate not to long ago....and you forgot the embarrassment already
The topic here is integrating Pakistan's stock exchange with NYSE and others. MS is playing system integrator and a subject matter expert as they already have experience in investing within Pakistani funds like PAK and other ETF's. Hope I clarified you. Read the entire topic, don't marginalize because of your flags. My topics are for people and I don't look at flags.
WOW, you can ask real questions instead of writing gossip against Pakistan? I am IMPRESSED for once. Bravo Sir. The Sun must've come out of the South today and I missed the world changing event
The real question isn't what you are asking about my answer's relationship to your post. The real question WAS in my post. That did you care to read the thread? And where did it say that MSI was trying to creade an "Index" of Pakistani funds as its becoming an emerging market? I think the Monkey the Russians sent to the space for experiments 5 years ago, knows that Pakistan is an emerging market. There is nothing new. The index offered by MSI already exists ticker symbol "PAK" and its around $ 15 ish.
So my question that you didn't answer, and instead wrote this post, was, why did you marginalize the thread's topic to creation of an Index, when the topic was the integration of stock markets like FTSE, NYSE, Nikkei, etc?
EFT's came in as an example that there are indexes etf's and other means of investing into Pakistan's PSX right now, offered by various European and British markets like FTSE, and DAX, etc.
How can one integrate markets? Just like the others were integrated for decades now
MSI has a lot of experience with Pakistani systems, trading and all. MSI provides market consulting services, all the way to technical integration services. I actually have multiple friends who work in that capacity and go to different countries all the time. So MSI, having experience with the Pakistani system (actually they provided consulting services to Pakistanis in how to design their system for PSX), and then having functional understanding of the Pakistani securities, etc, helps in leading integration projects with other markets.
, so they were one of the first few ones to focus on foreign market indexes, while Lehman, Berkshire and Goldman's of the world, focused on setting up emerging markets and BRICS primarily. 
to Futures Trading and Big Data based algorithmic trading .
