Australia

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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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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Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Oi Oi Oi

by Henry Becker 08.31.2009
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You remember the cheer for the Australian athletes from the Sydney Olympics.  There are certainly some cheers going up for the Australian stock market.  Not only is the Australian stock market turning in solid performance take a look at the currency. Oh did I mention that the Australian economy is the only advanced economy to [...]

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