One of the issues that long-term investors may consider is if they should invest in stocks of hi-tech companies. This group includes firms that became public in the past few years , freshly-minted IPOs and well established or mature firms. An example for each of this category can be Facebook(FB), Box Inc(BOX) and Cisco (CSCO). To answer my title …

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Asian economies continue to grow outpacing the economic growth of developed world making a compelling case for investing in Asia, according to a report by Nikko Asset Management. Asian countries excluding Japan have more than doubled their GDP as a percentage of the world total GDP from 9% in 1998 to more than 20% in 2013. …

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In the past few weeks I wrote a number of bullish articles on European equities. You can find some of them here, here, here and here. Over the weekend The Wall Street Journal published an interesting piece on the same topic. The entire article is worth a read. From the article: The Case of Europe …

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European firms generally tend to pay a higher portion of their earnings as dividends to shareholders. Unlike US firms they do not target a specific dividend amount or an yield but rather target to payout a specific payout ratio. One reason to invest in European dividend paying stocks is that their average payout ratios are …

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European stocks were average to poor performers last year.However they can be good bets for this year for many reasons including upcoming elections in countries such as Greece, Ireland, Spain and the UK and more importantly yesterday’s major announcement from European Central Bank. From a Bloomberg article: Mario Draghi led the European Central Bank into …

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