Asia

Can the news help your ETF portfolio construction?

by Henry Becker 03.11.2010
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Yes! As an investment advisor I read just about everything I can. On a daily basis I read the Financial Times, Bloomberg.com, WSJ.com, Reuters, and the AP. A look at some of the headlines in the last few days might give you some insight as to what ETFs you might be looking at to build [...]

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Australia and the Pacific – Complimentary Report

by Henry Becker 02.23.2010
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As a kid I would watch my father read the newspaper many evenings. Sometimes he would catch me staring and impart on me some bit of news that he thought I might find interesting. The best tidbit of advice he ever gave me about the news was that the big headlines tell history and the [...]

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Playing Asia

by Henry Becker 02.08.2010
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In the last year more than a few notable market strategists, economists and investing luminaries have all pointed to one region of the world to continue growing – Asia. Asia is can mean different things to each person. So, lets be clear we are not talking Japan or India. We are talking Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, [...]

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In the land of Raffles

by Henry Becker 11.03.2009
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The small island city-state is smack in the middle (both geographically and economically) of what is shaping up to be the global economic engine -Asia. In 1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles saw the potential of Singapore’s geographic location. Raffles was spot on. Today the ultra-modern, ultra-clean city-state is home to one of if not the [...]

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