February 22, 2012
by David Donora, Head of Commodities, Threadneedle Investments Institutional investors have increased their exposure to commodities significantly over the past 10 years for several reasons. Commodities have provided excellent long-term investment returns, significantly outperforming equities. Historically, commodities are uncorrelated with equities and negatively correlated with bonds and thus provide an important source of portfolio diversification. ...
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February 13, 2012
by Ernie B. Calucag Commodities trading group Glencore International has raised its equity stake in Chemoil Energy when its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary Singfuel Investment Pte Ltd acquired 484.729 million shares of Chemoil. Glencore’s stake increased to 89.04 per cent from 51.54 per cent. Japan’s Osaki Electric Co continues to increase its controlling stake in SMB ...
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February 6, 2012
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 ...
February 1, 2012
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 ...
January 30, 2012
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 ...
December 22, 2011
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 ...
December 20, 2011
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 ...
December 19, 2011
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 ...
December 7, 2011
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 ...
December 5, 2011
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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