Transnational Companies (TNCs) with large exposure to emerging markets offer a simple and easy way for investors to benefit from the growth in those markets. These companies are usually large cap, well  established companies and unlike their emerging market peers most investors are already familiar with them.  Some of the issues with emerging market firms …

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In the past few weeks the U.S. media hype into the Facebook IPO went into overdrive.Investors were bombarded with every little bit of information about the company and its young and now wealthy founders.Only Wall Street bankers, company founders, venture capitalists and other investors who acquired shares in the secondary market will make money while …

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The global IT industry is a multi-billion industry with thousands of companies employing millions of workers . Within the industry one of the major subsectors that has experienced strong growth in the past few years has been the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector. According to Wikipedia BPO “involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities …

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The global energy consultancy PFC Energy has published its annual ranking of the World’s Top 50 Energy Companies for 2012 based on market capitalization. The table below lists the PFC Energy 50 with their US market tickers if available: [TABLE=1055] Source: Bloomberg, PFC Energy estimates as of 12/31/2011 • Share price growth based on primary …

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Innovation of new products and services is one of they key determinants of a company’s long-term success. Large companies routinely allocate a significant portion of their investment funds for research and development. It is no secret that today’s leading companies in the world invest heavily in R&D in order to their maintain leadership positions and …

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