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Aaron Much has been made recently about gold’s use as a hedge against poor stock market returns. Unfortunately, this strategy has some holes in it. While it is true that gold tends to perform in the opposite direction as stocks during secular markets, it tends to perform similarly to stocks during shorter cyclical time periods. From … Read more
Together with the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, everyone is talking about the huge opportunities opening up in China. As the Chinese government is liberalizing the economy, industries such as tourism, manufacturing and service are investing their revenue especially for the upcoming Olympic Games. China expects a huge pre-Olympic investment boom and feels very optimistic towards … Read more
In 2006, 282 Mainland companies invested in Hong Kong, injecting more than US$2 billion into the Hong Kong economy, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) reported recently. According to InvestHK, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government department charged with encouraging and facilitating inward investment into the city, Mainland companies are attracted by Hong Kong’s international … Read more
The Issue Is Not China’s Stock Markets – It’s the Model By Scott B. MacDonald In late February 2007, the global stock market meltdown started in Shanghai. As The New York Times noted on March 4, 2007: “Less than a week ago, it might have seemed preposterous to suggest that a 9% fall in the … Read more
Offshore banking has often been associated with the underground economy and organized crime, via tax evasion and money laundering; however, legally, offshore banking does not prevent assets from being subject to personal income tax on interest. Except for certain persons who meet fairly complex requirements, the personal income tax of most countries makes no distinction … Read more
by Vern Jacobs There seems to be a huge amount of non-sense and some outright deception about the impact of tax havens and the alleged abuse of tax havens. The following comments are offered as an attempt to provide some balance to the arguments of those who rail against U.S. persons with foreign income, particularly … Read more
U.S. Global Investors Resources and Gold Funds Win 2007 Lipper Fund Awards SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The World Precious Minerals Fund, managed by U.S. Global Investors Inc. (Nasdaq:GROW), is the 2007 winner of the Lipper Fund Award in the Best Gold-Oriented Fund category. 2007 marks the second consecutive year that the World Precious Minerals Fund (UNWPX) has … Read more
In the last 10 years three billion people have started to climb the first rungs of the Global economic ladder and are lifted out of poverty and ignorance. The shift of wealth is set to accelerate as the “sea change” of prosperity and economic growth swing from the developed world shift to the emerging economies. … Read more
If you go to Amazon.com and search for books about venture capital, you get 14,114 responses, which includes many text books. Andrew Metrick, a professor of finance at Wharton, has just written a new book on the subject — titled, Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation. Unlike the thousands of other books on the … Read more