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Instos reach tipping point on EM PE

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... where Hamilton Lane is pursuing buy and build type strategies, according to Blackburn. "We've also recently done a deal in Turkey where we liked the type of operational enhancements they've been able to bring to underlying portfolio companies," Blackburn ...

BRICs plus four will drive world investment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China but supplemented by four others - South Korea, Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey. Katie Koch, senior strategist Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) who is also chief-of-staff to the GSAM chairman, Jim O'Neill ...

Medcraft to chair IOSCO

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... and Investments Commission. The Board also appointed Dr. Vedat Akgiray, chairman of the Capital Markets Board (CMB) of Turkey, and Ethiopis Tafara, director of the Office of International Affairs at the US Securities and Exchange Commission as vice chairs. ...

Nothing new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
It's Thanksgiving Day in the USA. This means it's a trading holiday in the USA. This means that us, in the Asian time zone, would have to do make do without a GPS today. This means that we'll be running around like headless turkeys. And it doesn't help ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... at 25 cents Shares in European Nickel jumped after the nickel explorer agreed to sell its mothballed Caldag project in Turkey for $US40 million ($A39.04 million) in cash. GNS - GUNNS LTD - trading suspended, last traded at 20.5 cents Forestry workers ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... European authorities can't seem to agree on a workable solution to the problem. But even if they do, Greece is stuffed turkey. And if it is, there's a good chance Ireland, Portugal and Spain could be too. I've written in the past on the how and why it ...

New index tracks second-tier emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
S&P Indices has launched a new index covering second-tier emerging markets Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. The CIVETS 60 index comprises of ten stocks from each country. Each company must have a market capitalisation of ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... purchasing managers indices in China, India, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, Czech Republic, Turkey... shall I go on? Markit Economics latest report shows that they're all above 50 and rising -- which means yes, they're ...

Turkeys, PIGS and Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
While investors had no recourse but to leave Americans at peace to bite heartily into their Thanksgiving turkeys - markets were closed - many were still shooting down European PIGS at the same time that Koreans were shooting down each other. After sending ...

Better than a Thanksgiving turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... portfolios. If you can stand the wild volatility of today's markets, it's certainly better than investing in a Thanksgiving turkey.