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Borderless Investor has finally caved in and jointed the Twitter revolution. Click here to become a follower.

30May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Asia Economic Outlook from CLSA Conference

Frank Holmes, CEO of US Global Investors, shares a few interesting notes from his trip to the latest CLSA investment conference in Singapore.
The conference in Singapore also featured presentations by CLSA strategists and economists looking at the broader economic outlook for 2009 and 2010. Here are some of the interesting points made in those presentations:
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30May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Must Read: Beware of Chinese Stocks on OTCBB

If you’re convinced that you have come across an amazing, undiscovered Chinese company trading on the OTC Bulletin Board, do yourself a favor and check out Peter Fuhrman’s blog China First Capital. Peter’s an investment banker who specializes in raising capital for Chinese companies and he knows the Chinese IPO landscape pretty well. And it’s [...]

28May2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued

Investing in BRICs with ETFs

The BRIC investment theme — as in Brazil, Russia, India and China — has been an enormously popular topic in international investing circles since Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill coined the acronym back in 2003. It’s hard to believe it’s been 6 years. The seminal pieces of Goldman’s BRICs research along with some other interesting [...]

27May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Zen and the Japanese Economy

No analysis of the global credit crisis and its aftermath can be complete without some reference to Japan. Some folks say the U.S. economy is headed for a Japan-style “Lost Decade”. Others point to Japanese stocks and their failure to come anywhere close to their late 1980s bubble era highs as a stern warning that [...]

25May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued