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Capital Idea for China’s Wealth
Americans so love the latest, inexpensive “Made in China” products – cars are coming soon – that Chinese firms are flush with export profits. One might think, however, that those companies could easily export that wealth as well, investing the money made in America back into US companies, as the Japanese and Europeans do. Not…
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UK property industry calls for urgency on trusts
UK property industry By Jim Pickard – The ownership of billions of pounds of property will move offshore unless the government urgently introduces Reits (real estate investment trusts), the property industry warned yesterday. The Treasury is keen to introduce a new tax-efficient vehicle for property investors but is adamant that such a system should not lead…
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Hedge funds in the crosshairs
Hedge funds have long been viewed as one of the more untouchable areas of the financial markets, and now 30,000 Canadian investors, along with a handful of pension funds, know why: Quite literally, they can’t touch their money. More than $1.2-billion they invested in two domestic hedge fund companies has been frozen by securities regulators…
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The Strange Tale of the Bare-Bottomed King
They say never sell America short and with good reason. Any country whose equity market has been able to crank out 6.8% real returns annually over the past century stands as a formidable obstacle for any speculator willing to bet the “don’t come” line. The odds of winning a long-term wager laid against the U.S.…
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‘Now is the time to invest offshore’
With the rand looking vulnerable, now is the opportune time to invest offshore, even though global markets are experiencing a soft patch, Mark Appleton, chief investment officer at Barnard Jacobs Mellet (BJM) Private Client Services, said in a statement on Monday. According to Appleton, softer international economic indicators have led to a downgrade in expected…
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U.S. Dollar Gains May Not Be Permanent
NEW YORK – It may be too soon to call the dollar’s recent rise a full-fledged turnaround. And there may be some in corporate America who are just fine with that. After being beaten and battered for the last few years, the greenback appears to be emerging from its funk by making significant gains in…
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British funds sector ‘under threat from tax regime’
TAX and regulatory burdens could pose a threat to British position as a leading global centre for asset management, according to a report released today. Currently the third-largest global centre for fund management, the UK’s £2.8 trillion industry could lose assets and jobs to low-cost rival centres, a study by the Investment Management Association and…
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Foreign exchange trade in China surges
April 2005 saw dynamic trade on the inter-bank foreign exchange market in China, with a robust month-on-month growth of 40 percent in average daily transaction volume, which reached US$1.282 billion. According to the Shanghai-based national forex swap center, turnover of the US dollar, the Japanese yen, the HK dollar and the euro, amounted to US$28.215…
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