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Analysts Recommendations More Measured for China

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 1, 2016

Analyst recommendations have begun looking more measured for China after a rough couple of years. Here you can see that analysts covering the Chinese market have moved from being very negative in 2013, 2014 and 2015 to being neutral in 2016 so far.

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Malaysian Energy Engineer Making Money from Storage

By Become a Better Investor | Aug 31, 2016

Under Mustaffa Kamal Abu Bakar’s leadership Dialog Group Berhad has been ranked in the top-three deciles on Profitable Growth. Dialog Group is a Malaysian engineering and construction company focused on services for the petrochemical and oil and gas sector, and storage of LNG, oil and petrochemicals.

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Hong Kong Has Fallen to “Neutral” Rating in Asia

By Become a Better Investor | Aug 30, 2016

Analysts are now neutral on Hong Kong after four years of rating the country a “Buy” in Asia, but several companies still remain attractive to investors.

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Recommendations on Taiwan Don’t Look Very Promising

By Become a Better Investor | Aug 29, 2016

Taiwan has the most negative analyst recommendations in Asia. It’s an extreme relative to all the other countries in Asia. Consensus target prices remain dim.

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Long-Distance Running Through Stock Market Minefields

By Become a Better Investor | Aug 26, 2016
Top 5 of the Week August 22 - Become a #betterinvestor

In the Top 5 this week, we look at the similarities between long-distance running and investing, what lessons we can learn from the history of the USA’s stock market, and discover just what are the values of value investing. All this and more…

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Soy Leader with Solid Profitability

By Become a Better Investor | Aug 25, 2016

Thai Vegetable Oil is a producer and distributor of soybean meal and oil. When Witoon Suewatanakul took over as Managing Director, the rank returned to the top and the rank has been maintained ever since.

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Global Equity FVMR Snapshot – August 2016

By Become a Better Investor | Aug 24, 2016

Developed Markets are only more profitable in terms of ROE than Emerging Markets due to the US. Even though the US has higher ROE, it’s less attractive on ROE/PB relative to both Emerging Markets and Developed non-US.

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Property and Palm Farms Grow Profitability at Malaysian Conglomerate

By Become a Better Investor | Aug 23, 2016

Hap Seng Consolidated Berhad is a major Malaysian conglomerate, which was established by the Lau family, its largest shareholders.

The Managing Director Edward Lee Ming Foo has been running HAP with great success, taking the company from a #3 rank on Profitable Growth in 2012 to the #1 rank it has maintained since 2014.

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Global Sectors FVMR Snapshot – August 2016

By Become a Better Investor | Aug 22, 2016

Health Care delivers the highest ROE among sectors globally—above 20%. Energy is still most expensive on PE due to low earnings. Earnings in the World are expected to see double-digit growth in 2017.

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10 Ways Ethics Adds Value to YOU

By Andrew Stotz | Aug 19, 2016

Within the financial world, there are many areas of focus such as accounting, economics, valuation, or derivatives. And, of course, there is ethics. I want to teach you 10 ways that ethics can add value to you.

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