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Global Logistic Properties gains from China’s online boom

From RightSite Asia and Reuters, As consumer spending grows in China and more people turn to online shopping, warehouse operator […]

University Endowments Face a Hard Landing

For years, America’s largest, richest and most prestigious universities have been the envy of investors. They churned out double-digit returns […]

Rio Rents Reaching $9,300 Mask Sputtering Real Estate Market

By Adriana Brasileiro and Peter Millard, Bloomberg Markets Magazine Lucia Faro is working harder these days. For the past three […]

Russia fund to invest abroad

It plans to invest its capital over the next five to seven years and will exit its investment within 10-12 […]

Cleaning Up on China’s Waste

By Rebecca McReynolds, Chazen Global Insights, Technology that minimizes or even reverses environmental damage — known as ”clean tech“ — […]

Balkan Emerging Frontiers Fund September Investment Commentary

Following noticeable growth in June and July, value of indices of large stock exchanges in developed countries (MSCI World Index, […]

Black Swan Farming

September 2012 I’ve done several types of work over the years but I don’t know another as counterintuitive as startup […]

The Skype Killers of Belarus

By Brett Forrest, From www.BusinessWeek.com, Living in a dictatorship has its advantages. You don’t need to stay up all night […]

Investors make $77M bet that a startup can solve the student debt crisis

By Christina Farr, http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/11/sofi/ A startup known as Social Finance has raised a sky-high $77.2 million in venture financing to bring its new lending […]

Australia’s Victoria Opens $6M IT Lab

(IBT) A new state-of-the-art $6 million IT laboratory has been launched in Hawthorn East in Victoria, Australia which science experts […]