Global AgeWatch Index: Norway best for older people – BBC News 09-30-14

Salient to Investors: HelpAge International said: Norway is the best of 96 countries to grow old in, followed by Sweden, Switzerland, Canada and Germany. Afghanistan is the worst. Australia, Western Europe and North America rank highly. By 2050, 21% of the global population will be over 60, when 40 of the 96

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Emerging Stocks Drop to Four-Month Low Amid Hong Kong Protests – Bloomberg 09-29-14

Salient to Investors: Hertta Alava at FIM Asset Mgmt said Hong Kong is usually very safe so the riots are unexpected, while Russia’s economy is getting weaker. Dmitry Polevoy at ING said the market is getting closer to panic, while the ‘ghost’ of peak external debt payments in September and

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What Putin Wrought Has World Asking What Russia Might Have Been – Bloomberg 09-29-14

Salient to Investors: Michael McFaul at Stanford University sees long-term damage to Russia from Putin’s new direction. Anders Aslund at the Peterson Institute for Intl Economics sees a similar shortfall in Russia’s 2014 growth to 2013’s growth of 1.3%, and versus IMF’s 2013 forecast of 3.9%. Alexei Kudrin expects Russia to post zero

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Flows to Emerging Markets Rebound After August Slump, IIF Says – Bloomberg 09-29-14

Salient to Investors: The IIF reported: Emerging markets received $18 billion in total inflows in September versus the $24.4 billion monthly average from 2010 to 2013. Indian and Mexican bond markets and the Brazilian equity market had inflow gains. South Africa, Turkey and Indonesia had reduced inflows. Read the full

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 09-28-14

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Destroying ISIS will take collaboration with Iran (which has far more influence than the US with the Iraqi government) which would  have beneficial effects from Iraq to Syria to Afghanistan. While air strikes are usually successful, what usually follows is messy. The US cannot both destroy ISIS

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