Former top PLA general under graft probe

June 16, 2014 Leave a comment

Former top PLA general under graft probe
Hilary Wong and Qi Luo
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

A graft probe against retired PLA general Xu Caihou – who has been placed under house arrest for his alleged involvement in a 10 million yuan (HK$12.4 million) corruption scandal – is to go head, according to Bastille Post.

Xu, 71 – the former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission – is the second highest official to come under investigation after Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party chief in Chongqing. Read more of this post

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Microsoft, Sony battle for hearts of video game fans

June 16, 2014 Leave a comment

Microsoft, Sony battle for hearts of video game fans
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
By Glenn Chapman, AFP

LOS ANGELES, California–Microsoft and Sony grappled on Monday for the hearts of hard-core gamers whose devotion could determine whether –box One or PlayStation 4 rule console play and Internet Age entertainment.

The rival console makers aimed squarely at hard-core video game players in grand press briefings, unveiling blockbuster titles and touting content or opportunities only available on their respective systems. Read more of this post

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Chip-makers are betting that Moore’s Law won’t matter in the internet of things

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Chip-makers are betting that Moore’s Law won’t matter in the internet of things

By Leo Mirani @lmirani June 10, 2014

For five decades, computing has followed one inexorable trend: that processors will double in power every 18 months. Ever since the Intel co-founder Gordon Moore first articulated this thought in a 1965 paper (pdf), pointing out that the number of transistors on every chip was multiplying, it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy, with chip-fabricators racing to make processors ever smaller, faster, and cheaper.

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Big retail can’t compete with India’s corner shops-but online grocery sites have a chance

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Big retail can’t compete with India’s corner shops—but online grocery sites have a chance

By Shruti Chakraborty 6 hours ago

India’s modern retail chains are struggling to get customers to buy food from their stores. It’s tough to compete with the corner shop where the cashier knows your name, your tastes, and allows you to settle bills once a month.

Corner shops should beware, though, of the online grocery. Read more of this post

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Top 50 Financial Advisor Blogs And Bloggers

June 16, 2014 Leave a comment

Top 50 Financial Advisor Blogs And Bloggers

The rankings for this list of the top 50 financial advisor blogs and bloggers are determined using website metrics measured by Moz Analytics, including page authority, external links to the blog, and total links. (See here for the exact scoring formula.) Blogs must operate on a standalone advisor-controlled domain or subdomain to be considered (i.e., blogs published solely on a larger multi-blog platform will not be considered).

To be eligible, advisors must actually be registered as such, either through an SEC- or state-registered RIA, or as a registered representative of a broker-dealer. Advisor registration status details and blog data updates are powered by BrightScope. Blog data (and advisor rankings) are updated at the end of every month.

To have your blog considered for this list, be certain to find and claim your AdvisorPage profile and submit your blog information via BrightScope.  Read more of this post

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Investment sentiment is drastically turning around as opinions diverge over the direction of corporate governance realignment by Samsung Group, following the announcement of Samsung Everland’s planned listing

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Stock market swayed by speculations on Samsung’s conversion into holding co structure

2014.06.10 15:05:15

Investment sentiment is drastically turning around as opinions diverge over the direction of corporate governance realignment by Samsung Group, following the announcement of Samsung Everland’s planned listing.
Brokerages shifted their focus from Samsung Group’s possible conversion into a holding company structure to strengthened control of the Group through spinoffs and mergers of major affiliates or handover of shareholdings to the third generation of the owner family after Everland’s listing.  Read more of this post

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Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is soon forecast to impose harsh disciplinary action on Amorepacific, which was embroiled in an unfair trade controversy over using forceful sales tactics against door-to-door sales distributors

June 16, 2014 Leave a comment

Amorepacific likely to face hefty penalty

Park Yoon-soo

2014.06.10 17:54:36

The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is soon forecast to impose harsh disciplinary action on Amorepacific, which was embroiled in an unfair trade controversy over using forceful sales tactics against door-to-door sales distributors last year.  Read more of this post

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The Inner Workings of a Quant Contrarian Strategy; Finance professor Wesley Gray discusses his upcoming actively managed value ETF

June 16, 2014 Leave a comment

The Inner Workings of a Quant Contrarian Strategy

Finance professor Wesley Gray discusses his upcoming actively managed value ETF.

By Samuel Lee | 06-10-14 | 06:00 AM | Email Article

A version of this article was published in the April 2014 issue of Morningstar ETFInvestor. Download a complimentary copy here.

Wesley Gray is the finance professor turned quant behind the upcoming ValueShares U.S. Large Cap exchange-traded fund. He cowrote with Tobias Carlisle Quantitative Value, a lucid, entertaining, yet meaty guide to the construction of an automated stock-picking strategy. Gray’s upcoming exchange-traded fund will implement a version of the strategy laid out in the book. Read more of this post

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Is Tai Chi the New Yoga?

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Is Tai Chi the New Yoga?

Confessions of an arm wafter.

By Simon Doonan

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Felix Green/Eye Ubiquitous/Getty Images

Suddenly last summer I became a bona fide alter kocker. I adopted the ultimate signifier of senior citizenship. No, I did not start jamming fistfuls of purloined Sweet’N Low sachets into my man-bag. And, no, I did not embark on an extreme couponing rampage. It’s worse than that. I took up tai chi. Read more of this post

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On the Value of Valuation Metrics; Valuations matter, but they are not timing tools

June 16, 2014 Leave a comment

On the Value of Valuation Metrics

By Cullen Roche · Comments (11) · Monday, June 9th, 2014

A recurring theme in my work is a rejection of “value” based methodologies to analyze markets.  I’m a big believer in fundamental analysis and especially top down macro work, but I have never found valuation metrics to be particularly useful because they don’t provide us with sufficient information about what we’re really trying to achieve. Read more of this post

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