Daniela Pylypczak: When it comes to trying to join the billion-dollar club, many investors tend to focus on the world’s wealthiest individuals. They harp on every word legendary Read more…
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Eric Dutram: Thanks to debt woes and low growth levels, the focus of many investors is shifting from developed markets in Europe and North America to more dynamic locales in the Asia-Pacific region. This could be especially true in the financial space Read more…
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Eric Dutram: For quite some time, China has been a leader in global growth. The country has gone from an economically unimportant nation to one of the leading powers Read more…
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Tony Sagami: If you ask me, all our politicians on a federal level are overcompensated. Every darn one of them! Not just the elected politicians themselves, but also their armies of support staff on the payroll. Read more…
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Martin Hutchinson: Having lived in Singapore as a child I’ve always been fond of Southeast Asia. Fifty years later, though, I like it for a slightly different reason. Read more…
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: “Buy. Real. Assets. Now!” That strong suggestion, from the highly-trafficked website to which investors go for their daily dose of critical analysis of daily economic Read more…
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David Fry: You could hardly say that Singapore has a great deal of natural resources, unless you count its human capital. The tiny city-state located at the crossroads of Asia depends on its neighbors for just about all things material, but has taken advantage of key niches in the information technology, Read more…
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Fearful of desperate governments taking desperate actions during the coming currency crisis, Gloom Boom Doom editor and publisher Marc Faber advises investors to Read more…
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Martin Hutchinson: Having spent three years there as a child, I have happy memories of Singapore. In those days, most of the locals lived in “atap” palm-frond-roofed huts and bathed by standpipes. Read more…
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Speaking with Investment Week, Jim Rogers of Rogers Holdings said he doesn’t expect gold to surpass $2,000 in 2012, putting him on the other side of the boat of Read more…
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Michael Johnston: iShares continued its torrid pace of product development with yet another first-to-market ETF, rolling out a fund targeting small cap Asian stocks excluding Japan. The new iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Small Cap Index Fund (NASDAQ:AXJS) is the first to specifically target Read more…
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Tony Sagami: I have a big smile on my face right now. Why? I just finished a trip to Singapore, my favorite city in all of Asia. Even though I was born in Japan, still have family there and have a strong emotional connection to my Japanese roots … Singapore is my favorite Asian destination. Read more…
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David Gillie: Indonesia is not only the paradise of the Eastern Hemisphere, Bali, but it is also a paradise for investors in their robust economy. GDP in Indonesia for 2011 was $823 Billion Dollars (est). To put that in perspective, Indonesia’s GDP is larger than Sweden’s and Argentina’s. Almost four times Read more…
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Michael Johnston: iShares has made another round of additions to its ETF lineup of well more than 200 products, debuting funds that target small cap stocks in Hong Kong and Singapore. The company Read more…
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Tony Sagami: How did your portfolio do in 2011? The answer greatly depends on where you invested your money and how able you were to withstand some wild volatility. Read more…
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