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Earlier this summer, Tezos smashed existing sales records in the white-hot IPO market after the company’s pitch to build a better blockchain for cryptocurrencies made it one of the buzziest ICOs in the world. As we noted at the time, the company capitalized on that buzz by courting VC firms and other institutional investors with a $50 million token pre-sale. After the company opened up selling to the broader public,...

Somewhere in the mountains near Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne lies a hidden underground vault containing a vast fortune. It’s no ordinary vault, according to Quartz. Built inside a decommissioned Swiss military bunker dug into a granite mountain, it’s precise location is a closely guarded secret, and access is limited by myriad security precautions. But instead of gold bars, the bunker contains hard drives on which...

Michael Lai, Fondsmanager bei GAM Michael Lai, Fondsmanager bei GAM, glaubt, dass sich das Reich der Mitte wie schon Jahre zuvor auf Reformen in den Bereichen Unternehmen, Umwelt und Investmentmarkt fokussieren wird. Die Aussichten für das Wirtschaftswachstum bewertet er trotz des Schuldenrisikos als positiv. Am 19. Parteikongress in China hat Staatschef Xi Jinping seine Machtposition...

Michael Lai, Fondsmanager bei GAM Michael Lai, Fondsmanager bei GAM, glaubt, dass sich das Reich der Mitte wie schon Jahre zuvor auf Reformen in den Bereichen Unternehmen, Umwelt und Investmentmarkt fokussieren wird. Die Aussichten für das Wirtschaftswachstum bewertet er trotz des Schuldenrisikos als positiv. Am 19. Parteikongress in China hat Staatschef Xi Jinping seine Machtposition...

Chinese producer prices accelerated in September 2017, while consumer price increases slowed. The National Bureau of Statistics reported this weekend that China’s PPI was up 6.9% year-over-year, a quicker pace than the 6.3% estimated for August and a 5.5% rate in July. Earlier in the year producer prices were driven mostly by 2016’s oil rebound, along with those in the rest of the global economy, but in recent months...

Chinese imports rose 18.7% in September 2017 year-over-year. That’s up from 13.5% growth in August. While near-20% expansion sounds good if not exhilarating, it isn’t materially different from 13.5% or 8% for that matter. In addition, Chinese trade statistics tend to vary month to month. What is becoming very clear is that China’s economy is behaving no differently than the global economy. Most of that increase for...

Xi Jinpings Doppelspiel: Freihandel predigen, aber China abschotten. Foto: Mark Schiefelbein (AP, Keystone) Im Jahr 2015 sah es in vielen Schwellenländern recht düster aus. Der grosse Rohstoffboom kam an sein Ende, China kämpfte mit einem Börsencrash, und Brasiliens Regierung geriet in den Sog eines Korruptionsskandals. Entsprechend sanken die Kapitalzuflüsse. 2015 erreichten sie den tiefsten Wert seit 1990. Die Grafik zeigt den Absturz der Zuflüsse klar auf (Quelle: IWF). Die Stimmung...

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)...