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  1. Finance Blogger: Ian Fraser

    CalPERS and other activist investors to gain a seat in the boardroom

    If you believe that increased shareholder engagement is the key to a corporate nirvana in which responsible investors can force companies to change their behaviour - for example by thinking longer-term and eschewing corporate excess - there's been a most welcome development.

  2. Finance Blogger: Anthony Harrington

    Court actions see subprime carelessness coming home to roost

    It seems that some of the institutions who found themselves on the losing end of US subprime mortgage securitizations want this same standard of commercial logic to apply to transactions in which, by most accounts, no one, including the losers, did anything remotely resembling due diligence...

  3. Finance Blogger: Anthony Harrington

    When the ECB looks at itself, what does it see?

    There is no shortage of commentators out there willing to give the European Central Bank a good kicking. The comments have been trotted out many times. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, this is not the picture that ECB insiders see. They hear the noises but to them, what is being described is fictional rather than real.

  4. Finance Blogger: Ian Fraser

    Dealing with the euro mood swings

    When the PIIGS crisis was at its height in May, many economists believed the eurozone was going to hell in a handcart and that the euro was doomed. There were predictions that fiscally-challenged economies such as Greece faced bankruptcy, ejection from EMU and a reversion to currencies such as the drachma.

  5. Finance Blogger: Anthony Harrington

    Global demand for food fuels mega merger fertilizer bid

    Agriculture has been the poor cousin to industry for more than a century, but rising population pressures in the developing world are focusing the attention of investors and industry alike on the central role food production is likely to play in the decades ahead. Nothing signals this more vividly than mining giant BHP Billiton’s hostile $39 million bid for the Canadian fertilizer manufacturer, PotashCorp.

  6. Finance Blogger: Ian Fraser

    China’s love affair with US bonds is not over...yet

    I wrote a blog post six months ago saying that Americans should not be paranoid about the possibility that China, the country’s biggest lender, will cause economic mayhem by dumping the $1 trillion plus of US Treasury Bills and dollar-denominated assets it currently holds.

  7. Finance Blogger: Anthony Harrington

    Fear adds lustre to gold

    On Thursday August 12, after weeks of shall-we, shan’t we, investors finally decided, in large numbers, that equities had reached the point where they were just too scary and that gold was the place to be...

  8. Finance Blogger: Ian Fraser

    Turkey remains one of world's hottest emerging markets, despite fiscal slip-up

    On a visit to New York in December 2003, I interviewed Jim Rogers, the renowned investor and ex-colleague of George Soros. Rogers – who, in my view, speaks a lot of sense about macroeconomics – had recently returned from the round-the-world trip on which he based Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip.

  9. Finance Blogger: Anthony Harrington

    Baltic Dry gets the punters in a spin

    Take an index that many of the “smartest” economic commentators like to use as a bell-weather for the coming ups and downs of the next six months and, well, wobble it up and down a bit, and what do you get? The answer, of course, is a good deal of froth and confusion.

  10. Finance Blogger: Anthony Harrington

    Globally, mega merger deals are back and doing just fine…

    There was a time at the height of the credit crunch when everyone was convinced that the days of the multi billion pound merger were over. However, while the non-availability of cheap lending from banks means that it remains difficult, if not impossible, for large private equity groups to lead huge mergers, this has simply cleared the field for the large multinationals to pluck the low hanging fruit.

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