Carl Delfeld
Global Equities & Emerging Markets Specialist, Investment U

Carl Delfeld is a Forbes Asia columnist and founder of Jetsetter Capital, a specialist on emerging and frontier markets. He is also an advisor to Leopard Capital, a frontier markets private equity firm. He represented the U.S. on the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines after serving as a consultant on emerging capital markets with the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.
Prior to this, he opened markets in Japan, Australia and Hong Kong for the investment bank Robert W. Baird & Company and headed up the Japan/South Korea Boston group for Bank of America.
Carl is the author of four books including The New Global Investor and Red, White & Bold: The New American Century. His commentary on global and emerging markets has appeared in publications such as Investor’s Business Daily, Forbes, Fox, Fortune, CNBC, Barron’s, The Economist, BusinessWeek and the Asian Wall Street Journal.
Delfeld has M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (Tufts/Harvard) and studied at Sophia University and Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.
You can view previous articles by Carl Delfeld below, or explore the Investment U archives.
- A Buy Signal for Petrobras (NYSE: PBR)?
- Investing in Emerging Market Multinationals
- Investing in Chinese Stocks: Capture Growth and Manage Risk
- Investing in Emerging Markets Infrastructure
- U.S. Manufacturing Vitality Offers Opportunities
- Asia Triple Play for 2012: Income, Quality and Growth
- A Green and Silver Holiday
- Sweden: The European Country You Should Be Investing In
- Get a Piece of the Next Nuclear Energy Boom
- Invest in the “Starbucks of China”
- How to Profit As the U.S. and China Battle for Southeast Asia
- A Beginner's Guide to Commodity Investing
- Why It's Time to Invest in Cuba
- The Class Warfare Portfolio
- The Old School Visionary Who Bested Steve Jobs
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