Financial Economics

INCOME FUNDS

Go with the cash flow

19 Nov 2012

Income funds predominate in a risk-averse, yield-seeking era. Jeanny Yu examines how such funds are built.

Suze Orman talks money

17 Sep 2012

Financial guru, writer, producer, speaker and multimillionaire Suze Orman trades tips with Anna Healy Fenton on a recent trip to the city.

Dashboard trading straight to market

19 Nov 2012

Etrade offers investors direct access to buy and sell online with no third party execution, writes Anna Healy Fenton.

Retire with fire

19 Nov 2012

How much do you really need for your pension? Liana Cafolla outlines some base-case scenarios.

Top 10 funds available in Hong Kong

8 Oct 2012

Invest, invest, invest. This is the repeated refrain from financial planners and related advisers. Investing and re-investing delivers the magic of compounded returns. It also creates a discipline...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

The week explained: price fixing

Is this a scene from a B-movie showing a room of self-satisfied men in suits conspiring to rig financial markets? They are confident that the suckers won't find out what they are doing, knowing...

Asia hedge funds lag behind global average

The world's fastest economic growth is not helping Asia's hedge funds.

The Eurekahedge Asian index, which tracks 395 hedge funds, returned 1.6 per cent to August 31, the worst performer...

Time comes to play it safe

Asian investors, who hoped the 2008 meltdown would be just a "normal crisis", like the others of the previous decade, have learned that recent history is not always the best guide.

SECURITIES

Emerging markets back in vogue amid global slowdown

Investing in emerging markets is often a risky bet. But under the bleak financial cloud covering the global economy, this is a chance many are willing to take, which is the reason developing...

ETFS

ETFs continues to be attractive for investors

The growth story of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) continues in the second half of the year, as wealthy investors turn to this investment instrument after a volatile first half for equities.

OVERVIEW

Investors can still profit

With low growth prospects and historically low interest rates, private investors in Hong Kong have to work a little harder than usual to make a reasonable return on their money. But even in a...