They are businessmen with very positive attitude toward investing capital, transferring technology, increasing market penetration, and expanding operations in the world's emerging markets. The businesses that they own or manage are heavily involved in such regions. Their names are made available by chambers of commerce as potential investors or joint venture seekers aiming at developing countries or regions of their preference. This database also includes private investors whose portfolio is heavy on stocks, bonds, and funds that are tied up to companies and economies of emerging markets. Their names make up the active clients list of brokers of financial institutions. Their confidence in these markets remain unshaken by crises that these countries go through every now and then.