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Investors look beyond BRIC

With a lower level of correlation to the global credit crisis, developing markets are attracting investors looking for extra alpha beyond the trendy markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). At the recent World Alternative Investment Summit Canada, three experts shared their views on the risks and opportunities in the alternative developing markets. As […]

By Mark Noble |October 9, 2008

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By The Book:

(September 16, 2008) The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) has convened a hearing panel to meet on October 28 to determine the penalty for Paul Patrick Futher. Futher has admitted that between 2002 and 2006, he conducted discretionary trades in a client’s account without the client’s knowledge, nor was the account approved by […]

By Staff |October 9, 2008

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Briefly:

(October 9, 2008) The current sell-off on the TSX will likely see the index falling to 9,500 before the end of the year, but the fundamentals of the global economy suggest that this is a gross overreaction, according to a report from CIBC World Markets. The global economy should turn in a growth rate of […]

By Staff |October 9, 2008

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World values

If there’s any manager who knows a thing or two about what is going on beyond Canada’s borders it’s Gerald Cooper-Key. The Calgary-based manager of Mawer Investment Management’s World Investment Fund has been seeking out undervalued companies for nearly two decades. Not only is his fund seeing an 11.84%, five-year average return, but Cooper-Key was […]

By Bryan Borzykowski |October 9, 2008

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