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The Importance of Time. A leading business news site. Investment news for investors, managers and advisors. News and analysis relevant to IFAs and their businesses. A useful site with information on the various platforms available, including a tool that allows you to compare the different wraps and platforms. Explanations of financial terminology along with articles, analysis and tutorials. Institute of Financial Planning (IFP). Alternative investment Management Association (AIMA).
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JetFin Green, Agriculture and Commodities: 04/2011
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NEWS - Commodites, Agriculture, Green Investment - NEWS. AAA reports worldwide rise in timber prices. Created 27/04/2011 - 16:58. Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA), an alternative investment advocacy organisation, reports that global demand for timber has increased, resulting in higher prices across Europe, Japan, China and the United States. These positive comments follow news that log exports to Asia from the west coast of the US have reached their highest point for 14 years. Other regions have also...
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JetFin Green, Agriculture and Commodities: Hedge Funders take to farming it face of doomsday
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NEWS - Commodites, Agriculture, Green Investment - NEWS. Hedge Funders take to farming it face of doomsday. Hedge fund managers (thanks to steep performance fees) tend to be known for zooming around in Ferraris and buying multimillion-dollar paintings. Not for tilling the soil on farms. Even off Wall Street (or Greenwich or San Francisco or whatever), the hedge funder interviewed for the article displays that typical confident market neutral hedge fund mentality: “If you farm it like we do, you can...
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JetFin Green, Agriculture and Commodities: "Stop Demonising Foreign Investors in Agriculture, They're Not Grabbing Land"
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NEWS - Commodites, Agriculture, Green Investment - NEWS. Stop Demonising Foreign Investors in Agriculture, They're Not Grabbing Land". Op-Ed, The Daily Nation – Nairobi - June 13, 2011. Author: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa. The rising food prices are stimulating interest in investing in African agriculture. Ethiopia-based firms will lease idle arab...
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JetFin Green, Agriculture and Commodities: 06/2011
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NEWS - Commodites, Agriculture, Green Investment - NEWS. Stop Demonising Foreign Investors in Agriculture, They're Not Grabbing Land". Op-Ed, The Daily Nation – Nairobi - June 13, 2011. Author: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa. The rising food prices are stimulating interest in investing in African agriculture. Ethiopia-based firms will lease idle arab...
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JetFin Green, Agriculture and Commodities: Richard Branson Invests in Russian Green Growth
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NEWS - Commodites, Agriculture, Green Investment - NEWS. Richard Branson Invests in Russian Green Growth. British tycoon Richard Branson and Rusnano chief Anatoly Chubais have launched a $200 million investment fund to back green growth and energy-efficiency projects in Russia. In the energy-importing economies of Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey, the fund looks to the renewables energy sector, while in Russia the focus will be on "resource efficiency" opportunities across sectors including transpor...
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JetFin Green, Agriculture and Commodities: 01/2011
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NEWS - Commodites, Agriculture, Green Investment - NEWS. Ex-Goldman executives launch active commodity fund. Reuters) - UK-based Fulcrum Asset Management has launched a fund designed to tap the growing demand for active commodities strategies from investors unhappy with the returns from commodity index trackers. Institutional investors have been switching to active strategies in greater numbers as passive plays have disappointed in volatile markets. As well as a maximum drawdown constraint of 25 percent,...
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JetFin Green, Agriculture and Commodities: 02/2011
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NEWS - Commodites, Agriculture, Green Investment - NEWS. Les investisseurs étrangers bienvenus. Le Courrier Interational 17.02.2011. Disposant de terres arables non exploitées, la Zambie les loue à des entreprises occidentales qui y cultivent des céréales. De quoi assurer l’approvisionnement du marché national. Scott Baldauf The Christian Science Monitor. 8220;Dans certains pays, l’agriculture est regardée de haut. Tout le monde aspire à un emploi de col blanc, mais nous voulons faire en sorte ...The bes...
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JetFin Green, Agriculture and Commodities: 11/2010
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NEWS - Commodites, Agriculture, Green Investment - NEWS. Saudi's Agroinvest to raise $533m for farm investments. By Souhail Karam Monday, 12 April 2010. FARM INVESTMENTS: Saudi based Agroinvest has said that it is close to obtaining approval from the regulator to raise $533m for foreign and local farm investments. (Getty Images). Usamah al Kurdi, who chairs Agroinvest's founding committee, said his firm would not want to tarnish Saudi Arabia's image by buying farmlands abroad. He added: "The ideal scenar...
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JetFin Green, Agriculture and Commodities: 10/2010
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NEWS - Commodites, Agriculture, Green Investment - NEWS. Le Japon, à l’origine d’une course mondiale aux ressources? LONDRES (Reuters) – L’idée qui germe au Japon de consacrer une partie des énormes réserves de change du pays à l’achat de matières premières industrielles est susceptible, si elle est appliquée, de provoquer des bouleversements économiques et financiers. Il a également avancé l’idée de créer un fonds souverain sur le modèle de ceux existant en Chine et à Singapour. 8220;L’idée d̵...
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