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Investors’ most favored market in February is…

Asset allocators are overweight equities and underweight bonds and cash, with high overweight positions in emerging markets, a survey shows. […]

By M Guliyev | 18 Feb 13 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Regions, Stocks, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Commodities: Correlating Trends with Opportunities

By Mark Mobius,  From mobius.blog.franklintempleton.com/2013/02/06/commodities-trends/ Commodity price inflation is both a social and an economic issue. In emerging markets in […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Feb 13 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Latin America | Comments (0)

African Investor Takes Silicon Valley Tough Love to Kenya

By Sarah Frier , Bloomberg, Mbwana Alliy is sitting in a conference room in a Nairobi, Kenya, tech center, an […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 11 Feb 13 | Also posted in Private Equity | Comments (0)

Water Could Be The World’s Next Biggest Market

In Uganda, a beer brewer is paying communities to protect wetlands in a bid to secure a steady supply of […]

By MarketAngel | 06 Feb 13 | Also posted in Commodities, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Private Equity | Comments (0)

Best Stock Pickers Trawl Frontier Markets as U.S. Funds Lose

By Michael Patterson, Bloomberg, Stock pickers focused on the least- developed markets are trouncing their benchmark index and producing annual […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 03 Feb 13 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Stocks | Comments (0)

TO: President Obama

FROM: Martin S. Indyk and Robert Kagan, Brookings Institute, http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/01/a-plastic-moment-to-mold-a-liberal-global-order As you enter your second term, the state of the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 Jan 13 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

10 treasures that outshine gold

By Michael Brush, From MSN Money, Diamonds Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, as Marilyn Monroe sang in “Gentlemen […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 21 Jan 13 | Also posted in Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Investment Wisdom, North America, Retirement & Savings, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Economic Growth–Great for Everyone but Investors?

By Alex Bryan | Morningstar By 2050 the world’s population is projected to reach 9 billion, up from 7 billion today. Nearly all […]

By nirtalnirtal | 21 Dec 12 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Latin America, Stocks, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Cocoa to Rice Woos Kuwait to Asia’s $2 Trillion: Islamic Finance

By Dahlia Kholaif, Bloomberg, Kuwait China Investment Co. (KCIC), part owned by the Persian Gulf nation’s sovereign-wealth fund, wants to […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Private Equity, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Emerging markets outlook 2013: more bulls than bears

(By EM) The bullish outlook for emerging markets for 2013 is supported by a “return from the abyss” for the […]

By M Guliyev | 17 Dec 12 | Also posted in Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Latin America, Stocks, The Big Picture, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)