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Luxury Partner Marketing

Today your customers are more connected than ever. LTN offer a full-service marketing agency working exclusively for luxury brands. We help our clients to become more profitable by looking at all areas of their business. Many of our clients are aspiring luxury brands who don’t have the marketing budgets needed to compete with the bigger [...]

ASEAN – China – India Monthly Report and Outlook

Two ASEAN companies priced successful IPOs this week, taking advantage of an increasing desire among global investors to move away from China and India and get exposure to smaller countries in the region, this is a trend that is set to continue and lift ASEAN markets. ASEAN +3 is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations [...]

Asian Currency Preview: Baht, Ringgit, Peso, Singapore Dollar, Rupiah

Asian Currency Preview: Baht, Ringgit, Peso, Singapore Dollar, Rupiah Local currencies in Asia will get a boost Monday from better than expected news from China, as we suggested in February, a poor monthly result was only due to the Chinese New Year, today we were proven correct the Purchasing Managers’ Index (CPMINDX) rose to a [...]

Best Retirement Stocks, Food CAT, BG, Golden Agri, Wilmar

AGCO Corp (NYSE:AGCO), Agrium Inc (TO:AGU), Potash Corp of Sask (NYSE:POT), Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), Bunge Ltd (NYSE:BG), The Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE)Indofood Agri Resources, Golden Agri Resources, Xiwang Sugar (HKG:2088), China XLX Fertiliser Ltd. HKG:01866, SGX:B9R, ZHONGPIN INC. NASDAQ:HOGS, Around Asia also look at Noble, Wilmar and Thai United. As Warren Buffett said, “Someone’s sitting in the shade [...]

ASEAN News: Asia Currency Update, Baht, Ringgit, Peso, Singapore Dollar, Rupiah

The Bloomberg-JPMorgan Asia Dollar Index (ADXY), which tracks the region’s 10 most-active currencies excluding the yen, climbed 1.5 percent this quarter, the biggest gain since December 2010. The MSCI Asia-Pacific Index (MXAP) of shares rose 11 percent. The depreciation of Asian currencies also could be a policy move in response to slackening of growth globally. [...]

Real Estate News: Where are the Wealthy Buying?

Popular cities for the Ultra-Rich London is the most important City in the World according to the ultra-wealthy. The Wealth Report, a new study by Knight Frank Research and Citi Private Bank, list the 10 International cities that high-net-worth individuals consider the most important. The report surveyed individuals worth more than $25-Min investable assets to [...]

Agriculture in Emerging Markets: Dairy Products and China

Thursday, Fonterra Co-operative Ltd. (NZ:FCG) the World’s largest dairy company announced it will target emerging markets, with emphasis on China, where supply is exceeding demand from the growing middle classes for dairy products. New Zealand’s Fonterra Co-operative Ltd. will focus on fast- growing markets and driving growth with “greater intensity. Strong economic and population growth [...]

Why Hedge Funds and Banks Should Move to Asia

Financial Institutions around the world and especially those in Europe and the USA face a crucial set of choices about the future of their institutions. Western Governments are riddled with debt and their only way out is decades of austerity and taxes, but the new world is a mobile world, globalization has set limits on [...]

ASEAN Currency News: RMB, Ringgit, Baht, Peso, Singapore Dollar

Emerging Asian currencies are likely to stay next week, especially if markets see further signs of economic slowdown in China. Some investors have started hedging against the possibility of a China hard landing by selling the Australian dollar. Still, dealers and analysts say that most investors do not expect a severe slowdown in the world’s [...]

ASEAN +3 and 2015, The Worlds Largest Trade Bloc

ASEAN +3 is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People’s Republic of China (including Hong Kong), Japan, and South Korea. Home to 600 million people, ASEAN has a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of US$1.8 trillion with total trade valued at $2 trillion among the countries. ASEAN is set to explode as an [...]

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Private Equity Takes a Hit in Q1 2012

Most private-equity and hedge funds typically take 20 percent of investment gains as carried interest, on top of 2 percent of assets as a management fee to …