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I regularly follow several well-established investment managers, hoping to glean new insight for my portfolio by tracking both their holdings and investment themes. The problem with this approach historically has been assessing the real-time attractiveness of each name in these managers' respective portfolios, given that their filings are always somewhat delayed. However, by taking a cross-section of these portfolios with Morningstar's proprietary metrics and rating for stocks, I've been able to uncover current investment ideas that otherwise may have not been immediately apparent. (Note: Our trading policy prohibits us from trading stocks based on information gleaned from manager interviews.) .
The fundamental and cyclical position of the GCC business cycle
Gauging the business cycle is critical to good business planning. The idea that market timing does not matter is for those who are not in the market or should stay outside it. So let us try to estimate where the business cycle has now reached from both a fundamental and cyclical perspective, although the two are inextricably linked. .
Investment column: Bid mania can be profitable game for the ...
Correction, what correction? If that was it, investors can count themselves lucky - a 7pc slide in the FTSE 100 in just two weeks, then three weeks later, the market back within 2pc of February's peak. You shouldn't think we're out of the woods. It would not be the first time that shares clawed back three-quarters of their loss only to head south again with renewed vigour. It's called a sucker's rally. .
China and Japan: between past and future
Shinzo Abe's most innovative gesture as prime minister of Japan came just after he assumed the post in September 2006: the decision to make Beijing rather than (as is customary) Tokyo's principal ally, Washington, the destination of his first overseas trip. The clear aim was to thaw the Sino-Japanese ties that had steadily cooled under Abe's predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi. A further contrast with Koizumi followed, namely Abe's wise decision (so far at least) to forego any official visit to Yasukuni shrine, the controversial war memorial in Tokyo which China and both parts of Korea view as a symbol of Japanese aggression in the 1930s and 1940s. The visit of the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao to Japan on 11-13 April 2007 may be regarded as one reflection of the soundness of Abe's judgment, in this important area at least.
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