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Martin Hutchinson: In today’s market, dividend investing is the best way to achieve a decent income stream without taking on too much risk. On the other hand, this is also true: emerging markets give investors the benefit of the world’s fastest economic growth. Read more…
Jim Trippon: Incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou was re-elected in a close campaign in Taiwan. Ma, of the Kuomintang Party, or KMT, defeated chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Party Progressive Party, or DPP. Ma received 51.6 percent of the votes to Tsai’s 45.6 percent. Read more…
Michael Johnston: As the ETF universe has expanded dramatically over the last several years, many investors have taken advantage of this asset class to tap into international equity markets. With single-country ETFs dedicated to dozens of developed and emerging markets, accessing the major Read more…
Michael Johnston: The universe of U.S.-listed ETFs has expanded at a record pace in 2011, with more than 300 new products beginning to trade. This year has also seen some contraction, as a number of different issuers have shuttered products that failed to generate interest from investors. IndexIQ is Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: If you think the global economy is out of the woods now that the European Union (EU) has expanded its effort to solve the sovereign debt crisis, then I’m afraid you’re sorely mistaken. Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: Don’t let the headlines fool you, there’s lots of money to be made in global investing in 2012. You’re just going to have to be careful – more so than in years past – because right now the line drawn between successful markets and markets that are in danger of collapse is treacherously Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Domestic equity indexes started off the week on a positive note, unlike European markets which fell victim to selling pressures as worries over Italy spooked investors. Yields on 10-year Italian bonds soared to their highest level since 1997 as political turmoil in Rome intensified after Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Call #1: Neutral on Indonesia – I first advocated an overweight view of Indonesia back in early February. Since then, the market has bucked the negative global trend. Since February, the iShares MSCI Indonesia Investable Market Index Fund (NYSE:EIDO) has gained roughly 9% Read more…
China is one country where 10-percent economic growth in a given year doesn’t necessarily lead to a strong stock market. As an investor in the Asian markets since the 1980s, I have learned this lesson the hard way. Sure. A loss of capital is worse than a loss of opportunity. Read more…
Robert Scott Martin: The official purchasing managers index (PMI) from Beijing indicates that China’s factory sector not only grew in August, but accelerated slightly. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Pain in the euro zone encouraged global investors to shift their allocations back to emerging markets funds this week, but with individual country funds still bleeding money, the move seems tentative. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Despite the market’s eagerness, MSCI did not reclassify any countries along the “frontier” to “developed” axis yesterday — and future changes may be hard to come by. Read more…
Money Morning: After reading columnist Martin Hutchinson’s latest report on the Greek debt crisis last week, one Money Morning reader posed an excellent question: Given the crises already Read more…
Emerging market funds kept shedding money this week, but a revival in commodity prices gave some regions a bit of welcome upside. Read more…
The global index gurus at MSCI are scheduled to make a big announcement tonight about the new country weightings — and maybe a few added surprises. 
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