Salient to Investors: Kyohei Morita and Yuichiro Nagai at Barclays said: Abe’s policies can succeed even if wages don’t immediately accompany price increases, because 2.21 million people born between 1947 and 1949 are starting to retire and will become buyers rather than workers and savers, even as the total population declines.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Africa’s growing middle class and rising travel is fueling the fastest pace of hotel development in the world. Africa is buoyed by increasing trade with countries including China and rising demand for services such as lodging. The Economist Intelligence Unit says over half of African countries will post GDP of 5
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: AFK is the most actively traded Africa ETF and the first ETF to move to weighting holdings based on GDP of the countries it tracks. The vast majority of ETFs that focus on foreign countries and regions are weighted by market cap, which captures only the shares
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Nouriel Roubini writes: Rwanda has a visionary leader and very competent policy team. Its impressive economy has been growing close to 8% for many years albeit from a low base, and Kigali has good urban planning unlike other African cities Read the full article at http://drnourielroubini.blogspot.com/2013/07/dr-nouriel-roubini-says-rwanda-is.html Click here to receive
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Africa has become the great hope of the business world. The World Bank says Africa could be on the verge of a take-off the like of China’s 30 years ago. Populations are stagnating or declining in Europe, Japan and China, while Africa’s population of 1
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Cap Gemini and Royal Bank of Canada said in their millionaire report for 2012: North America reclaimed the most millionaires top spot. 3.73 million North Americans had at least $1 million in investable assets versus 3.68 million in Asia-Pacific. The combined wealth of the world’s millionaires rose 10 percent to
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The World Bank says that in 1981 nearly half the world’s citizens were poor, while today, less than a fifth lives in poverty – from 2 billion to 1.2 billion people. Chinese poor declined by nearly 680 million people in the last three decades,
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Asian state-owned oil companies are making inroads in the contest for East Africa’s energy reserves. Fields off Mozambique are estimated to hold enough gas to meet global demand for 2 years. Brett Olsher at Goldman Sachs said state producers have a national interest initiative to secure significant
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