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Indonesia Fund, Inc. (The) (IF)

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  • Seeking High-Alpha, Low-Beta Countries (Part II) by Suna Reyent
    This piece is part of an ongoing project to identify countries that have a potential to provide high investment returns while exposing investors to less market risk. It constitutes part two of “Seeking High-Alpha, Low-Beta Countries” series published by Seeking Alpha last week.Ever... More »
    December 21, 2009 • CEE, ECH, EEM
  • Seeking High-Alpha, Low-Beta Countries In The Investment Universe: Part I by Suna Reyent
    A year ago, Seeking Alpha published a piece of mine entitled “Calculating Country Risk Observed By Betas”. Since equity markets tend to go up and down in a synchronous fashion with the world markets, owning a country risk itself means owning a piece of the general “market... More »
    December 13, 2009 • EPI, CEE, ECH
  • The Best Long Term ETFs and Mutual Funds by Retirement Savior
    Do you want the best returns for the long run? Go to where the growth is. The financial community loves to talk about US stocks having a 7% real return, after it was popularized in Jeremy Seigel'sStocks for the Long Run. This translates to 10-11% return before we take inflation into... More »
    September 28, 2009 • FXI, IFN, IF
  • Trend Condition of Country Funds by Richard Shaw
    There were some substantial price moves today for many country and region funds.  How do they look now relative to their 200-day simple moving averages? The chart below shows the ratio of the price to the 200-day average, and the 100-day average to the 200-day average, for 35 country and... More »
    August 17, 2009 • VT, EFA, VWO
  • BRIC to BIC to BICI? by Richard Shaw
    Goldman Sachs coined “BRIC” for Brazil, Russia, India and China.  Some commentators have recently suggested that Russia’s stocks are too volatile, economy too fragile and politics too hostile to capital, and that maybe “BIC” is more attractive.  Based on... More »
    June 25, 2009 • SPY, VTI, IWV
  • Add Indonesia to Make the BRIIC? by Drew Arnold
    The IMF has raised its 2009 growth projections for Indonesia, and Morgan Stanley has just issued a flattering report on the Indonesia's long-term growth potential.  Sounds good to me, but be careful with the entry point.  Indonesia took on an inadvertant stimulus this quarter in the... More »
    June 15, 2009 • IF, IDX
  • Shrinking US Trade Deficit = Beware Emerging Markets by Hedged In
     From Floyd Norris in the NYT:The United States estimated this week that the trade deficit, as a percent of gross domestic product, fell to 2.4 percent in the first quarter of this year.That is the smallest deficit in a decade, as can be seen in the accompanying chart. It is less than half... More »
    May 3, 2009 • EEM, VWO, ADRE

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