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Monthly archive:September 28, 2017

Urbanisation in Asia: challenge and opportunity
Urbanisation in Asia: challenge and opportunity
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Urbanisation in Asia: challenge and opportunity

Asia’s cities are growing and growing, presenting the urban infrastructure with great challenges. Thanks to technical progress, the relevance of environmentally friendly transport solutions is on the rise. Investors can benefit from this trend, as Gabriela Tinti points out in an op-ed article for the magazine “Global Investor”.

US central bank will start reducing bond holdings in October
US central bank will start reducing bond holdings in October
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US central bank will start reducing bond holdings in October

The most important central bank in the world, the Federal Reserve of the USA, has announced a historic decision as a result of its FOMC meeting on 20 September: the central bank balance sheet, hugely inflated in the wake of the bond purchase programme, will be gradually reduced from October onwards. Generally speaking this is […]

Tailwind for biotechnology companies
Tailwind for biotechnology companies
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Tailwind for biotechnology companies

Biotechnology shares have been among the top performers in the past ten years. After the above-average performance from 2010 to the beginning of 2015, hedge funds set off a consolidation that is now coming to an end. The NASDAQ biotechnology index, the most important barometer for biotech shares, has gained 25% in the year to date (source: Reuters Datastream, as of 31 August 2017).