How to invest in funds
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Investment funds have gained a wider market in Asia although these have been sold for many years. Known in the US as mutual funds, investment funds pool the cash of several individual investors and place them in different financial instruments. Risk is limited since most investment funds only invest up to 10% in any stock and can only up to 10% of any company. Thus, busting out on any one stock or company does not make the investors lose all their capital. The cost of buying into a fund is also lower since this is shared by the investors. Open-end and closed-end funds are among the common forms favored by investors.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1992
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Japanese as apple pie
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Nomura Securities International's New York office has been remarkably successful by going its own way, emphasizing its US ties and activities and playing down Japanese business. Max Chapman, the US office head, took over in Oct 1989, three months before Japan's bubble economy collapsed, drawing most of the multinational's attention. With most of its traditional Japanese business in a lull, the office stopped broking US equities and turned to commercial real-estate finance and mortgage and equity derivatives.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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Bird flu: Peregrine succumbs to Asian fever
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The collapse of Peregrine is a reflection of the financial difficulties that have hit Asia as a whole, according to some commentators. The company's demise was triggered by the fact that Indonesian concern Steady Safe defaulted on a $270 million loan following the decline of the rupiah. This loan accounted for one-third of Peregrine's capital. However, the company had a more general structural problem, with too much attention being given to market share and too little to cost.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1998
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