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Playing a Potential Drop in Chinese Stocks
By Staff WriterChina has been one of the best performing equity markets over the past year. The Shanghai Composite is up more than 100% since the beginning of 2007, compared with a much more modest gain of 39% for the broader MSCI Emerging Markets index. However, the Chinese market has fallen about...
November 01, 2007
Technology 2.0Once upon a time, long ago, technology stocks accounted for over one-third of the S&P 500's market capitalization. In just a few short years, the bursting of the Internet Bubble halved that amount. Even so, technology is still one of the largest sectors of the market--and also one of the...
November 01, 2007
Too Much of a Good ThingA rubber band stretched to its limits and then let go will always snap back. Unfortunately, the markets are not as predictable as rubber bands....
October 26, 2007
SRI Doesn't Have to Mean Subpar Performancenew report released by the United Nations Environment Programme and a group of leading asset managers from around the world draw upon dozens of studies to demonstrate that investors acting responsibly do not have to sacrifice investment performance as a result.
October 23, 2007
Putin to Remain Front and Center in RussiaRussia has enjoyed unprecedented economic growth over the seven years of Putin's reign, due largely to surging oil and gas export revenues. At any rate, the commodity price surge jump-started the economy--as well as the government to repay its international debts--leaving the ruble devaluation, debt default, and financial crises of...
October 16, 2007
Environmentally Sustainable InvestmentsAdvisors and their clients who want to invest in environmentally sustainable assets have two new choices with the launch of Sustainable Asset Management's (SAM) Sustainable Water Fund and Sustainable Climate Fund.
October 16, 2007
Barclays Launches Single-State Muni ETFsBarclays Global Investors has announced the rollout of California and New York state-specific municipal bond ETFs, which are listed on the American Stock Exchange and began trading on October 5. New York and California are two states with high state income taxes and many high-income residents, which my make these...