The Top Five Russian Banks in 2013 were: Sberbank VTB Bank Gazprombank Russian Agricultural Bank Alfa Bank Source: The Banker Sberbank was ranked at 34th in the Top 1000 World Banks list for 2013 compiled by the magazine. It trades on the OTC market under the ticker SBRCY. 50% of the bank is owned by the …
The World Economic Forum publishes The Global Risks report every year when its annual meeting takes place in Davos, Switzerland. The latest report lists the following as the Ten Global Risks of Highest Concern in 2014: Fiscal crises in key economies Structurally high unemployment/underemployment Water crises Severe income disparity Failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation …
Dividend stocks were mostly ignored by investors during the dot com era of the 1990s. Soaring stock prices of high-tech companies made dividend-payers of traditionally boring industries such as utilities, consumer staples, industrials, etc. unattractive to most investors. However since the recent global financial crisis, dividend stocks are back in vogue again as yield-hungry investors …
Most emerging markets performed poorly last year relative to developed markets. The question on many investors’ mind now is if emerging markets would continue the dismal performance this year also. I found the following information on emerging markets in a research report by Barclays. Click to enlarge Source: Compass, December 2013/January 2014, Barclays The period …
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Retirement plans in European countries are slowly changing in recent years. Countries are moving away from Defined Benefit (DB) plans to Defined Contribution(DC) plans. In DB plans an employer basically defines a benefit that the employee will receive at a certain date in the future usually after retirement. This is usually a set amount based …
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