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Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM News: Equity Funds Attract Big Inflows

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Investors dumped money market funds in January and shifted into higher-yielding equity funds, according to EPFR Global. "The emerging-markets equity funds we track have had their best start in six ...

News

Facebook COO Sandberg Offers A Seasoned Hand In IPO

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES By Valentina Pasquali When social-networking giant Facebook filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in February to raise $5 billion in one of the most anticipated initial public offerings of recent times, the talk ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Foster Becomes CEO At Petrobras

NEWSMAKERS: BRAZIL By Antonio Guerrero Graças Foster, 58, was appointed CEO of Brazil's Petrobras state-controlled oil company in February, becoming the first woman ever to head one of the world's top oil operations. Foster was nominated by ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Sudden Currency Moves And Hedging

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The euro’s surprising rise early this year, even as the European Central...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Indian Airline Industry Opens To International Buyers

MILESTONES: INDIA By Valentina Pasquali It's been rough going for India's airline industry recently. Photo Credit: CHRISTOPHER PARYPA / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM High fuel prices, the global economic downturn and cutthroat competition for the domestic market have burdened carriers ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Insuring Directors & Officers Liability

SAFE LANDING By Paula Green With new regulations and tighter enforcement that could lead to more corporate legal action, many companies are increasing their cover for directors and officers insurance. Most corporate risk officers should still enjoy ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Xstrata Investors Balk At Merger

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Mining company Xstrata's merger with commodities dealer Glencore may not go ahead unless the terms are improved for shareholders. The $90 billion deal, billed as a "merger of equals," is ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Ma Wins A Second Term In Tight Taiwanese Presidential Race

NEWSMAKERS: TAIWAN By Thomas Clouse Ma Ying-jeou will serve a second term as president of Taiwan after winning 51.6% of the vote in the January election, defeating his closest competitor, Tsai Ing-wen, by less than six percentage points. ...

Banking

Middle East Investment Banking

CLOUDY OUTLOOK By Gordon Platt The global economic slowdown and regional political turmoil are casting a pall over investment banking in the Middle East. As there's no change in sight, bankers in the region may be in for ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regional Focus: Latin America

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE By Antonio Guerrero While neither Brazil nor Uruguay have any trade pacts aside from Mercosur, Chile and Mexico have many agreements in place. The two strategies have met with varying success. When ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Salon: James Rickards, Policy Weakness

SEEKING OUT VULNERABILITIES By Vanessa Drucker Global Finance sat down with James Rickards, senior managing partner at boutique alternative investment firm Tangent Capital Partners and author of Currency Wars: The Making Of The Next Global Crisis . ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Special Report: Intellectual Property

Companies are trying to determine how best to monetize the untapped value in this hot, new asset class.