MAI stands for Market for Alternative Investing, but the reality is that it has stood for superior investments, and I think this theme will continue in year 2008. Wake-up and smell the coffee is my message going into year 2008.
Many good & regular timely proprietory ideas -overall adding value to your total returns.
But you have to keep up and make your own decisions. A "favored list" would so only be a snapshot at this very moment. With stock transaction costs so low -and things moving ever faster- my...
Smaller cap value shares here have been the performance leaders for years. They taste great and are less filling. The key however is to try to avoid the long confirmed "wall flowers"; these stay stuck for various reasons well known to long time seasoned investors here.
In the near future the average emerging country's stock market p/e's should command a premium, not a discount as in the past. After all these got the reserves, the growth to come and large account surpluses; further as recent events in the past 10 years events show, many of the financial...
Hedge funds practically cannot invest in smaller cap value shares, take beefy yet not unresonable fees...that is OK, but only if they are above average & proven money managers. Such fees are the industry standard for managing money, not just hedge funds. Here is short review/update on this explosive industry....
Here is a timely article on how a foreigner to Thailand can get started investing in what appear to be well undervalued Thai shares. The SET benchmark index, just now around 700, is so at a lower levels then at year end of 2003 and beginning of 2004.