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David Gillie: For those of you in my generation, the thought of Vietnam brings up visuals of military carnage as seen on the nightly news of the 1960′s. This is what Vietnam looks like today. Read more…
Ron Rowland: The year is almost over, and the world’s supposedly “advanced” economies are still falling into chaos. Whether it’s Europe, the U.S., or Japan, the outlook for 2012 looks dismal. Read more…
Daniela Pylypczak: Over the last couple of years, investor interest in certain asset classes and general strategies has spiked as a result of the challenges facing global financial markets. With interest rates at record lows and volatility jumping to higher-than-average levels, dividend-focused ETFs have Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has committed the United States to a low interest rate environment through at least 2013, which makes emerging market banks such as Banco Marco SA (NYSE:BMA) and BBVA Banco Frances SA (NYSE:BFR) more appealing than American money Read more…
The developments of the last several years have highlighted the growing gap between the developed and emerging markets of the world. Advanced economies in North America, Europe, and Asia face mounting debt burdens and the prospect of a prolonged stretch of low economic growth. Read more…
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Emerging market stocks have been recognized as an important asset class for diversification purpose for a long term retirement investing portfolio. Small company stocks in emerging economies offer even higher growth in this asset class. The small cap shares are usually those which Read more…
Emerging markets operate new environments, with new challenges and unique models for investment. Despite the risk and the toughness, emerging markets have an interesting potential Read more…
CNBC brought in Paul Justice, Morningstar, and Matt Shapiro, MWS Capital, to discuss ETFs versus Mutual funds. Matt says he has stopped using ETFs and switched to Read more…
For investors looking to generate current returns from the equity portion of their portfolio, there is no shortage of exchange-traded products offering attractive dividend yields in the current 
WisdomTree, the New York-based firm behind more than 45 ETFs, reported first quarter net income of $0.2 million, the first profitable quarter for the publicly-traded ETF 
State Street rolled out two new ETFs on Thursday, launching products offering exposure to emerging markets equities and fixed income securities. The SPDR Barclays Capital Emerging 
Global X, the New York-based ETF issuer behind popular products focusing on equities of commodity producers 
With a staggering amount of money pouring into exchange traded funds this year, CNBC decided to bring in 
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