by Ernie B. Calucag Hui Yan Moon, director of Hong Kong-based Swing Media Technology Group, increased his equity stake in the group when United Partner Investment Ltd transferred 17 million shares to Hui as part of the earlier agreement. Hui now has 4.98 per cent direct equity stake in Swing Media. He also has 22.93 ...
Source: BlackRock Following a rollercoaster ride in financial markets through the second half of 2011, the bad news is that acute uncertainty will likely continue through the New Year. The good news is that individual investors have a well equipped toolkit in order to manage their portfolios even if markets remain extremely volatile. We all ...
by Ernie B. Calucag Yu Zhong Jiang, a director of GRP Ltd, ceased to be a substantial shareholder of the group when he disposed 24.5 million direct shares at S$0.24 per share as part of a sale and purchase agreement with both Chen Wei and Kee Chee Chiang. The divestment left Mr Yu with 0.72 ...
by Sam Goh Nai De Executive Wealth Coach, Wisdom Capital LLP Over the past few years, many emerging economies have managed to outperform developed economies in the areas of economic growth and stock market performances. Once regarded as the laggards of the global economy a decade ago, emerging countries such as China, Brazil, India and ...
by Anthony Chan, Head of iShares Asia Research & Investment Advisory (ARIA), BlackRock Here is a common dilemma faced by many investors in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Let us say you are bullish on Chinese equities and want to express an investment view. Also assume you are attracted to a sector-based ETF because it has ...
by Asiasons WFG Trading Week: December 12-16 As we have expected, the cheers from the European Summit on local stock market was short-lived. Market rebounded on Monday after the European leaders had agreed to new fiscal accord as well as adding EUR200 billion to fight the debt crisis, but fell for the next three days ...
by Guy W Pope, Threadneedle Investments A unique approach to contrarian investing There is no set definition of the term “contrarian investing”. Some investors look at themes or sectors that are out of favour, or search for “deep value” by using traditional financial metrics, buying into companies whose share prices have fallen to a steep ...
Trading Week: November 28 – December 2 Global central banks finally acted, when the European debt crisis seemed to cross the line for the worse. On Wednesday, 21 November 2011, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Swiss National Bank ...
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By Lee Kha Loon, CFA Institute As the recent K-REIT acquisition of 87.5 per cent of Ocean Financial Centre from K-REIT parent company Keppel Land — and whether the deal was fair to minority shareholders — continues to hog the limelight, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has weighed in on the growing debate. MAS stated ...
by the BlackRock Investment Institute We think global debt markets are in the process of undergoing a tremendous secular change that will make fixed income investing over the next five-to-ten years look very different from what it has looked like over the past twenty. Specifically, lower economic growth rates in the developed world, and very ...
