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The Metals Hedge Fund: Inflation Protection
The Metals Hedge Fund: Inflation Protection Funds like HeffCap’s Metals Funds that have built a unique portfolio of Metals and Metal related derivatives and equities are set to see strong growth for the next few years. Marc Faber, S&P 500 Could Decline 40% Last month Economist Shayne Heffernan said, Sell in May, but start in [...]
Indonesia Dividend Stocks: Lippo Karawaci
Indonesia Dividend Stocks: Lippo Karawaci Lippo Karawaci, one of the country’s largest property developers, remains optimistic on the business environment in Indonesia and is paying its investors Rp 270 billion ($28 million) in dividends this year. “Indonesia’s economic prospect shows positive trend and foreign and domestic investment continue to grow,” said Ketut Budi Wijaya, president [...]
Currency Wars Pressure Emerging Markets
International rating agency Standard & Poor’s warns that although Asia’s emerging economies, including Indonesia, remain strong, growth relies on demand from advanced economies and would not be optimal in 2013. In statement obtained in Jakarta on Thursday, Standard & Poor’s ratings service said that its latest report, “Emerging Asia Will Grow But Won’t Be Firing [...]
New Buy Out Fund Launched in Asia
New Buy Out Fund Launched in Asia The objective of the Fund is to achieve capital appreciation with optimum returns, within controlled levels of risk, over the medium to short term by investing in buyouts and build-ups and growth equity investments. The Fund will only target rapidly growing companies that are profitable, have proven business [...]
Wealth in Asia
New report finds that many asset rich households in Asia are retiring income poor However, research reveals that the relatively vast sums of personal wealth accrued by households in Asia provide a solid foundation for generating retirement income if efficiently mobilized Manulife Asset Management recently issued a report that analyses the retirement income security of [...]
Looking for value stocks? Try using a map
From Warren Buffet to Sir John Templeton, the concept of value investing — finding equities that represent bargains — has been around for decades. But could this idea be used to group stocks according to country? A recent Thomson Reuters StarMine study suggests that the value approach may help identify nations that are attractive for [...]
Dividend Focused CFD Fund
Dividend Focused CFD Fund HeffCap is launching a new Dividend Focused CFD Fund, great protection in the current economic environment after the success of their Metals, Currencies and Private Equity Funds. There also funds focused on Metals, Agriculture and Currencies, here is how they work. Contract for Difference, or CFDs as they are commonly known, [...]
Bank of Thailand and the Thai Baht
Bank of Thailand and the Thai Baht Economist and Hedge Fund Manager Shayne Heffernan takes a look at the Thai Baht. The Thai Baht has taken the path we suggested last year, in fact when I spoke to former Prime Minister in 2011 I informed him I had estimated that by 2015 the Thai Baht [...]
No Bull, It’s a Bubble
No Bull, It’s a Bubble Shayne Heffernan on Markets as Global Growth Set for Downgrade As I have warned a number of times we are not in a Bull Market, we are in a Central Bank Bubble. There is no underlying rally in commodities to support a move forward in the global economic outlook, in [...]
Asia Pacific Economic Update
Asia Pacific economies will grow 7.8 percent this year on robust domestic demand, the World Bank said, but it warned countries to guard against overheating in credit and asset prices. The forecast is up from 7.5 percent last year, but the bank said in its latest East Asia and Pacific Update report that expansion would [...]
Euro Crisis: Banks Face Ruin
Europe’s banks are facing an uncertain future, money has been departing the region for 5 years, Government aid has been too little to late and Cyprus has set an ugly precedent for sovereign debt. What is clear is that many banks in Europe are being squeezed out of business and the ECB has no method [...]
Global Unemployment on the Rise
Looking at the medium-term, the forecast global economic recovery is not expected to be strong enough to bring down unemployment quickly, and the number of jobseekers is expected to rise to more than 210 million over the next five years. The labour market situation remains particularly bleak for the world’s youth, with almost 74 million [...]
Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) Technicals Point to Fall
Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) Technicals Point to Fall Bollinger Bands are 56.08% narrower than normal. The narrow width of the bands suggests low volatility as compared to Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI)’s normal range. Therefore, the probability of volatility increasing with a sharp price move lower has increased for the near-term. The bands have [...]
Miss Grand Thailand 2013: Promoting World Peace
Miss Grand Thailand 2013: Promoting World Peace Miss Grand Thailand 2013, part of the new Miss Grand International was the centre of attention in Thailand this week. The contestants, Thailand’s most beautiful young women were at Sofitel So Bangkok, the stunning Christian Lacroix designed amenities were brought to life by the Miss Grand Thailand bikini [...]
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China Economy in for a Shock
Thursday’s PMI revived investor worries about whether China can sustain an economic revival this year, after annual growth slumped to a 13-year trough in 2012. China’s factory output and investment performance for April released earlier …
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