Every year Global Finance magazine publishes the list of world’s best banks. This years ranking was published recently. The full list of banks and additional details will be released in May. From the press release: Global Finance, founded in 1987, has a circulation of 50,050 and readers in 180 countries. Global Finance’s audience includes senior …
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Professor John Ross is Senior Fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China and runs a blog called Key Trends in Globalisation. His work regularly appears in Chinese and Western media. In an article posted yesterday he argues that economic hard landings have occurred in the past in Western economies and not in China. In …
The FTSE/JSE All Share Index is the benchmark index of the South African equity market. According to the index provider FTSE: The FTSE/JSE All-Share Index represents 99% of the full market capital value i.e. before the application of any investability weightings, of all ordinary securities listed on the main board of the JSE, subject to minimum …
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Developing countries are home about 80% to the world’s population. For example, the population of China and India alone are approximately 1.35 bn and 1.25 bn respectively. According to a research report John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen of Brookings, 98% of world’s hungry people live in the developing countries. 78% of the harvested croplands are also in …
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David Rosenberg: The ‘buy and hold’ era is over — and you can thank Janet Yellen for that (Financial Post) EM dollar recession eclipses 1998-99 in depth (FT beyondbrics) First, do no harm (Vanguard Bog) and see First Rule of Running Other Peoples’ Money? Do No Harm (Barry) The FTSE 100’s ‘dividend heroes’ revealed (Money Observer) Lifting the bonnet on …
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