Asia Funds Archive

2008 March

Sovereign Wealth Funds Bail Out Major Banks — March 1, 2008
Sovereign wealth funds (which I'll call SWFs for short) are state-owned funds that contain financial assets like stocks, bonds, property and other financial instruments. SWFs are designed to allow countries to make large-scale investments around the world.

2007 August

Arbitrage and Hong Kong Boost Chinese Shares — August 30, 2007
This summer has been a rough time for investors. After a period of extreme volatility, the market bounced back last week only to become choppy again this week. Despite all of the up-and-down action, many of our China Strategy stocks have been shooting straight up over the past two weeks.

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