Investing in Turkish companies is challenging before even
considering corporate governance issues.
INVESTING IN TURKISH COMPANIES
Challenge
Explanation
· Difficulty to determine past
performance of companies
· Unrealistic valuation and control
expectations
· Relative scarcity of focused,
pure play companies
· Scarcity of companies with
aggressive growth plans
· Long and complicated shareholder
agreements
· Inflation + Macro volatility
+ Lack of management accounting
· Volatility increases the option value
of being a shareholder and control
· Focused companies may be less
robust in volatile markets1
· Leverage and fixed costs are deadly
in crises – adverse selection
· Insufficient minority rights in the
commercial code