BRIC or MINT? Investors suffer acronym anxiety

LONDON (Reuters) – Which investment takes your fancy: BRIC, MINT or CIVETS? For many fund managers seeking the next big thing in emerging markets, the answer is none.

Acronym investment – putting money into small groupings of markets which often have little in common beyond a broad economic concept – is giving way to acronym anxiety.

Former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill set the ball rolling in