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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Can emerging Asian economies shop the global economy back?

by Henry Becker 06.26.2009
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Many economists will have you believe that without the American buyer the world is in trouble.  Maybe.  There are more than a few wise economists that will tell you that instead of the engine of global growth the United States is the caboose.  There are some not so surprising statistics pointing to the back of [...]

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