All Features articles – Page 325
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Dancing to our own tune
Although still very much tied to the fortunes of the global economy, Asian markets are increasingly dancing to their own regional tune. The attractive valuations and higher dividend yields in Asia have brought domestic and foreign liquidity into the equity markets and have certainly been a major contributor to their ...
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Low taxes pose pension dilemma
The Isle of Man, less than 100km from the UK coast, has always followed pension developments in the UK closely. This is in contrast to the other two British offshore centres, Jersey and Guernsey, which have taken a more independent approach. The island adopted most of the provisions of the ...
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Doesn’t suit you, Sir
The other day Belle and I went into a car showroom. When we finally got to see a salesman, he said: “You’ll want a Volvo estate.” “Certainly not, we want a Lotus Elise,” I said. “Sorry, couldn’t sell you that. A beast like you would look silly, the Volvo it ...
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Europe's investors respond to ETFs
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are increasingly being used by institutional investors in Europe. This can be gleaned from figures that show that the use of US-listed ETFs and the similar HOLDRS vehicles by European institutional investors has grown 20% faster over the year to end June 2003, compared with the ...
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The future for hedge funds
There are some expressions you read about in magazines and hear regularly at conferences these days that most people had never heard of a few years ago. One such expression now heard regularly is: “the search for alpha”. Another is: “absolute return investing for pension funds”. Even now, few of ...
