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Author: Aaron

  • Playing Commodities With ETFs

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    Famed investor Jim Rogers made a fortune by investing in commodities during the 1970s. Now, Rogers is back in commodities, and he’s giving individual investors advice in his new book, Hot Commodities (Random House, 2005). His thesis is that the world is in the midst of a bull market in commodities. He believes that the…

  • Greenspan or Buffett? Asia Mulls Who’s Right

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    Even though his bet against the dollar cost him $310 million in the first quarter alone, Warren Buffett is sticking with it. Alan Greenspan seems less worried about the world’s top currency. Who’s Asia to trust when the two most revered U.S. gurus in this region are at odds? The issue is far from academic,…

  • E&P’s ‘i’ on the future

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    With nearly 70% of current global oil production flowing from fields more than 30 years old – and peaking or in decline – oil companies are increasingly focused on information technology’s role in helping the upstream industry face the ‘challenges and opportunities’ of the coming decade. [box]STREAMLINING OPERATIONAL PROCESSES THROUGH information management systems – now…

  • Oversold stocks now make investing your money easier

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    At last! The word oversold – market jargon for “too cheap” – is starting to reappear in analysts’ recommendations. This suggests investors are readjusting to the hefty share price falls of the past two months, and looking for bargains. We are also getting buy recommendations. Among stocks to score these last week were the ANZ…

  • Has Your Investment Portfolio Got ‘Alpha’?

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    NEW YORK – Frank Holmes, chairman, chief executive and chief investment officer of money management firm US Global Investors [GROW], has been on a hot streak, but isn’t afraid to share some of his success secrets with retail investors. With some of America’s top performing mutual funds under the care of his firm, Holmes revealed…

  • Not Energized by Bush’s Energy Bill

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    “President Bush Wednesday will propose new steps to increase domestic energy production, including incentives that could result in construction of nuclear-power plants and building oil refineries on abandoned military bases,” USA Today reports. “Oil prices have been rising because increased demand in countries such as China and India has made it difficult to keep production…

  • DTCC Forms Alternative Investment Products Advisory Committee

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    Sixteen Industry Representatives Team with DTCC to Explore Standard Platform for Processing, Settling Trades of Alternative Investment Products The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced the formation of an industry advisory committee on alternative investment products to develop an automated, centralized and streamlined approach to the processing of these instruments. Comprising a cross-section…

  • Playing With Fire

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    Forget the new zillionaires. There are many good reasons to resist playing with fire in the China craze. When the ducks are quacking, the saying goes, Wall Street feeds them, and right now we ducks are quacking for a steady diet of China-related investment opportunities. If China’s economic miracle ends the way many do (e.g.,…

  • Investment Biker

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    Jim Rogers is the author of Investment Biker (Random House 1994), Adventure Capitalist (Random House 2003) and Hot Commodities (Random House 2005). Born in 1942, Jim Rogers had his first job at age five, picking up bottles at baseball games. Winning a scholarship to Yale, Rogers was coxswain. Upon graduation, he attended Balliol College at…