China's net international investment position hit 662 bln USD at year-end 2006

Now there are plenty of posts out there that deal with WSE, though we are going to concentrate solely on Mutual Authentication. Mutual authentication requires certificates to be in both locations, now it is possible for use of a single certificate. The problem is once the single certificate is compr...more

Seeking Only Good Companies

The media has focused a lot of attention on the number of companies going private via the private equity community compared to the number of firms going public. This is best measured in number of companies and in total market cap. This ratio of going private and public runs in cycles and there is no...more

Asia 'explores' approach to reserves

China's unprecedented $3bn investment in Blackstone, the US buy-out fund, is the beginning of a trend that will see Asian countries take a more "innovative" approach to investing their foreign exchange reserves....more