Tag Archives: China

Official gold reserve updates from the Russian and Chinese central banks are probably one of the more closely watched metrics in the gold world. After the US, Germany, Italy and France, the sovereign gold holdings of China and Russia are the world’s 5th and 6th largest. And with the gold reserves ‘official figures’ of the US, Germany, Italy and France being essentially static, the only numbers worth watching are those...

In the US our economic data for a few months at least will be on shaky ground due to the lingering economic impacts of severe hurricanes. In China, the potential for irregularity is perhaps as great, though it has nothing to do with the weather. In a little over a week, Communist Party officials will gather for their 19th Party Congress. The temptation may exist to deliver a somewhat better economic picture than has...

(Bild: S. Hofschlaeger, Pixelio) Candriam bietet die weltweit erste frei zugängliche Online-Trainingsplattform für nachhaltiges und verantwortliches Investieren. Damit will der Assetmanager zeigen, wie sich nachhaltige Investitionen in ein erfolgreiches Kundenportfolio einbetten lassen. Die neue Candriam Academy will das Bewusstsein von Finanzintermediären für SRI (Social Responsible Investing)...

(Bild: S. Hofschlaeger, Pixelio) Candriam bietet die weltweit erste frei zugängliche Online-Trainingsplattform für nachhaltiges und verantwortliches Investieren. Damit will der Assetmanager zeigen, wie sich nachhaltige Investitionen in ein erfolgreiches Kundenportfolio einbetten lassen. Die neue Candriam Academy will das Bewusstsein von Finanzintermediären für SRI (Social Responsible Investing)...

Emil Wolter, Portfoliomanager Emerging Markets bei Comgest Emil Wolter, Portfoliomanager bei Comgest, ist der Ansicht, dass Innovationen die treibende Kraft für das "Neue China" sein müssen. Daraus können sich Gelegenheiten für Stockpicker ergeben. Emil Wolter, Portfoliomanager Emerging Markets bei Comgest erwartet, dass der 19. Parteitag der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas einen ökonomischen...

World stocks eased back from record highs and fell for the first time in eight days, as jitters about Catalonia’s independence push returned while bets on higher U.S. interest rates sent the dollar to its highest since mid August; S&P 500 futures were modestly in the red – as they have been every day this week before levitating to record highs – ahead of hurricane-distorted nonfarm payrolls data (full preview here)....

Time is the soul of money, the long-view – its immortality. Hard assets are forever, even when destroyed by the cataclysms of history. It is the outlook that perpetuated the most competent and powerful aristocracies in continental Europe, well up through World War I and, in certain prominent cases, beyond; it is the mindset that has sustained the most fiscally serious democratic republic in the Western world, that of...

Today we’ll continue to size up the bull market in governmental promises. As we do so, keep an old trader’s slogan in mind: “That which cannot go on forever, won’t.” Or we could say it differently: An unsustainable trend must eventually stop. Lately I have focused on the trend in US public pension funds, many of which are woefully underfunded and will never be able to pay workers the promised benefits, at least without...

Symbolbild, Raps. (Pixelio) Ein ökonomisches Experiment von Swiss Finance Institute-Professoren zeigt, dass viele Anleger ethische Überlegungen über finanzielle Rendite stellen. Dies trifft sowohl auf eigennützig orientierte als auch auf eher sozial eingestellte Anleger zu. Im Experiment, durchgeführt von den Swiss Finance Institute-Professoren Rajna Gibson Brandon (Universität Genf), Matthias...

China’s Communist Party concluded the Third Plenum of its 18th Congress in November 2013. It was the much-discussed reform mandate that many in the West took to mean another positive step toward neo-liberal reform. At its center was supposed to be a greater role for markets particularly in the central task of resource allocation. In some places, the Party’s General Secretary Xi Jinping was hailed as the great Chinese...