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BRICS and China’s Aspiration for the New “International Order”

By Yun Sun, Brookings Institute, The destinations of new Chinese leader’s first foreign tour are always carefully chosen and reflect […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 03 Apr 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Risk Unrewarded as Emerging Stocks Lag Behind Most Since ’98

By Michael Patterson and Inyoung Hwang, Bloomberg, The link between risk and reward in stocks is breaking down as emerging […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 02 Apr 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Statistics, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Low-Volatility ETFs for Emerging Markets

By Tom Lydon, From www.etftrends.com/2013/03/low-volatility-etfs-for-emerging-markets-2/ Low-volatility ETFs have been a hit with investors and could make even more sense for […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 Mar 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Finding Oxstones, Stocks | Comments (0)

Desalination Seen Booming at 15% a Year as World Water Dries Up

By Matt Craze – Feb 14, 2013 Bloomberg Markets Magazine In the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, 158,438 residents of […]

By MarketAngel | 26 Mar 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Finding Oxstones, North America, Private Equity | Comments (0)

Brazil forecasts investment surge

Government officials speaking to Emerging Markets sound confident that Brazil can now achieve annual economic growth of about 3% to […]

By M Guliyev | 19 Mar 13 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Food for Thought, Investment Wisdom, Regions | Comments (0)

Brazil’s Richest Family Forging $13 Billion Niobium Dream

By Cristiane Lucchesi and Alex Cuadros, Bloomberg, In 1965, U.S. Navy Admiral Arthur W. Radford persuaded Walther Moreira Salles, a […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 17 Mar 13 | Also posted in Asia, Commodities, Finding Oxstones, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Private Equity | Comments (0)

This Colorful Table Shows Why You Should Diversify Your Emerging Markets Portfolio

By Sam Ro, From Business Insider, http://www.businessinsider.com/usfunds-em-periodic-table-2013-3 If you’re lucky, then you might be able to pick the right stocks […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 11 Mar 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Investment Wisdom, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

How to Make a Dream Vacation Pay for Itself

How to Make a Dream Vacation Pay for Itself By Danny Warren, International Living I squeeze the brakes of my […]

By Aidualc | 08 Mar 13 | Also posted in Retirement & Savings | Comments (0)

Nurturing Undiscovered Companies

By Mark Mobius, From Templeton Blog Emerging economies can tend to have higher growth rates and can be more dynamic […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 07 Mar 13 | Also posted in Asia, Finding Oxstones, Private Equity | Comments (0)

James Rickards: Global Monetary System Headed for Collapse

The world currency system is riding down the road to catastrophe, says James Rickards, senior managing director of Tangent Capital […]

By Aidualc | 25 Feb 13 | Also posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)