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Thailand Is Currently a ‘Buy’ in Asia

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 13, 2016

Analysts have had positive recommendations on Thailand for five years, and it remains a “Buy” in Asia. The 2016 estimated upside has already been reached, and the 12-month forward is at 3%, since the SET index has shown strong performance year-to-date.

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Recommendations on Singapore Have Seen a Massive Fall

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 12, 2016

Consensus recommendations on Singapore have gone from a “Buy” in the 2014-2015 period to the current recommendation of “Sell”—a massive fall.

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Fantasy Investing and Why You Shouldn’t Poke a Sleeping Bear

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 9, 2016
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This week’s Top 5 examines how emerging markets are becoming increasingly attractive, how fantasy ruins investing (and football apparently), and the reality behind our vision of hedge funders. All this and more…

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Analysts Remain Very Optimistic on India

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 8, 2016

In the bottom-up country consensus recommendations India hasn’t been a “Buy” in Asia for the past five years. Recently, however, it has gotten stronger recommendations and moved to “Neutral” from “Sell.”

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Vietnam Dairy Products (Vinamilk) – Fan Request

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 7, 2016

Vietnam on Demand: A fan requested to see the World Class Benchmarking of Vinamilk, so here it is.

Vinamilk is beating 531 of 590 large Consumer Staples companies globally. Vinamilk’s strengths are Profit margin and Sales growth while its weakness is Asset utilization.

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Hoa Phat Group – Fan Request

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 7, 2016

Vietnam on Demand: A fan requested to see the World Class Benchmarking of Hoa Phat Group, so here it is.

Hoa Phat Group is World Class in every measure of performance with a really strong profit margin.

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Demystifying Investment Lingo – How to Buy Stocks

By Andrew Stotz | Sep 6, 2016

Book review of How to Buy Stocks: The value of this book for beginners is that it explains the main different investment options and what to expect when you put your money in them

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Recommendation is Currently at Maximum Level for the Philippines

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 5, 2016

We can see that the bottom-up country relative consensus recommendation is currently a maximum level “Buy” for the Philippines. The consensus EPS growth estimates have been stable over the last five years at about 11% on average.

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Closet Technicians and Fed Statistics

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 2, 2016
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Check out this week’s Top 5, we look at statistics that need a closer examination for the real truth, what we are actually paying our money managers, and how to sleep more soundly at night with the right investments. All this and more…

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Make Indexing Your Investment Strategy

By Andrew Stotz | Sep 2, 2016

Book review of Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Investors who don’t try to profit by predicting market shifts will do better in the long run with tax-favored savings and investment plans with a diversified portfolio built up of index funds, over speculators who try their hand at short-term predictions.

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