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MSCI ponders reclassifying Nigeria, Egypt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023
... Jamaica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Malta, Palestine, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe. On June 14 the Central Bank of Nigeria announced operational changes to the FX Market effective immediately. MSCI said ...

MSCI, FTSE Russell drop Russia from indexes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
... alongside the indexes for Argentina, Jamaica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Malta, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lebanon, and Palestine. Ukraine is also classified as a Standalone Market by MSCI. "The reclassification decision will ...

Super funds procrastinate on holdings disclosure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... the very last layer. "They were looking all the way down until you hit rock bottom and you found the last one cent in Zimbabwe," Crich said. "With the FSC, we were trying to lobby Treasury to explain some of the practicalities of the issues with what ...

Any reason will do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... scope to do more - it has negative inflation still. Not so for the others. They just have to look at what happened to Zimbabwe when it printed tonnes of its currency. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia, "As of November 2008, unofficial figures put Zimbabwe's ...

Surging institutional interest in frontier markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... developed markets," said Nielsen. MSCI defines 31 countries as frontier markets including Argentina, Jamaica, Croatia, Zimbabwe and the United Arab Emirates.

Insync hires senior portfolio manager

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... Desmond was co-founder and chief investment officer of Africa's largest independent asset manager, Fleming Asset Management Zimbabwe, now Imara Asset Management.

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... correct to anticipate that nothing of substance will eventuate. Heck, they were not even able to stop irrelevant little Zimbabwe from sinking its currency - not that anybody cared except the Zimbabwedians perhaps. How then does anyone expect any one ...

Gold is hip again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... inflation erode the value of the paper money you're carrying to something worth less than the paper it's printed on -- think Zimbabwe... or if you cast your memory way further back, think of Germany's Weimar Republic. Hey, that's also in Europe! In case ...

Sell dollars to buy stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... provide jobs which increases consumer spending. A depreciating currency on the other hand says that all is not well. Think Zimbabwe. The other explanation for this near perfect negative correlation is the switching between the safe-haven US dollar and ...

The Art of War

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... behind a smile." China is currently funding the US deficit with a smile. Then it'll pounce. But who wins in the end? Maybe Zimbabwe.
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