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The State of the World: A Framework

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The evolution of geopolitics is cyclical. Powers rise, fall and shift. Changes occur in every generation […]

Fosun Raising A Fund to Invest Globally

By Michael Cole, mingtiandi, Last week I let Mingtiandi’s readers know that I would be having lunch with Fosun’s CEO […]

How Dim Sum Bonds Will Change the World

By John Maxfield, Motley Fool, It’s easy to think of bonds as innocuous instruments of debt that only the most […]

The Economic Process of Deleveraging Part One – What Happened in Japan?

By crackerjack, crackerjackfinance, The process of deleveraging has been in place since the onset of global recession and financial crisis […]

Why I Quit my Bank Job and Moved to Malaysia

by Keith Hockton, International Living, I’d always wanted to be a writer. It was something I yearned to do for […]

CIS region is popular location for clinical trials in 2012

Pharmaceutical companies have discovered that CIS countries, such as Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia contain large pools of potential candidates […]

China’s ‘Sunshine’ Trusts Avoid Global Hedge-Fund Malaise to Triple Assets

By Bei Hu , Bloomberg, Wealthy Chinese investors are turning to “sunshine” private trusts, the prototypes of hedge funds in […]

US Commercial Developers Learning the China Real Estate Ropes

By Michael Cole, mingtiandi, Despite some mis-steps in the past, American real estate developers are starting to make significant investments […]

Clinical market in CIS to exceed €700m in 2014

Clinical trials in the CIS countries have been developing in a positive fashion (with the exception of Russia, whose development […]

China’s Desperate Developers Turn to Investment Funds to Stay Afloat

By Michael Cole, Following China’s clampdown on traditional funding for speculative real estate ventures, developers facing a financing gap estimated […]