The News Review:
- Proposed factoretfs: Leveraged Investing with a Twist
- Q&A: Crosslink Capital’s Alain Harrus on Solar Investing in Tough …
- Chile Falabella investing $350 mln in Peru in ‘09
- Sowing seeds for a healthy hedge fund investment
- Inside Asia Why China Will Keep Investing Abroad
Proposed factoretfs: Leveraged Investing with a Twist
Seeking Alpha
there is both a Large Factor ETF that tracks excess return of large cap stocks over small cap stocks and a Small Factor ETF that tracks the excess return of small cap stocks over large cap stocks). In order to achieve their stated investment goals the proposed ETFs would use a variety of. As such the FactorETF products will likely be geared towards sophisticated investors who have intended holding periods of only a few hours. In recent months leveraged ETFs have been the subject of.
Q&A: Crosslink Capital’s Alain Harrus on Solar Investing in Tough …
Reuters
Q: Venture-capital investments in solar have declined. Is the VC appetite for solar becoming saturated? A: There’s still a lot of interest in the next generation of photo absorbers — not just concentrators but also multijunction and III-V materials — in better system monitoring and management and in the [energy] storage area. These areas are still very active with the bar a little higher and a lower level of investment. [Reporter's note: Multijunction cells have multiple layers of semiconductor materials to boost their efficiencies while III-V materials such as gallium arsenide also have the potential to reach much higher efficiencies than cells commonly used today. ] Q: Valuations for solar companies are down significantly. Do you think they will come back to the levels we were seeing most of last year or do you think those valuations represented a spike and were too high? Continued.
Chile Falabella investing $350 mln in Peru in ‘09
Reuters
The company’s chief executive Juan Benavides also saidthe spending is part of $600 million that Falabella (. SN) isinvesting in the Peruvian market over the next three to fouryears the newspaper Gestion reported. Falabella which has operations in Chile Peru Argentinaand Colombia plans to have 340 stores covering 2. 4 millionsquare meters in Peru by 2012 doubling what it had in 2007. Along with Chile’s Ripley RIP. SN Falabella leads theretail sector in Peru.
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Sowing seeds for a healthy hedge fund investment
Reuters Blogs
Secondly there are still few investors willing to commit capital so hedge funds are often fighting over seed capital. At last month’s GAIM conference in Monaco FRM Capital Advisors chief operating officer Patric de Gentile-Williams told me a whole new opportunity set was opening up — funds that previously had seed capital but had seen it withdrawn. There are still plenty of pitfalls in hedge fund investing but there seem plenty of opportunities for those who can pick the right managers. *For those who are wondering 5:15 is named after the track on The Who’s 1973 album.
Inside Asia Why China Will Keep Investing Abroad
New York Times
But the diplomatic storm whipped up by charges leveled by Beijing against four employees of Rio Tinto shows just how bumpy the journey overseas may be if it triggers a backlash against Chinese interests. China has long been scouring the globe for energy and commodities to feed its thrumming economy. What is new is the leadership’s determination to increase outbound foreign direct investment or. as it weans the economy off low-value export-oriented manufacturing.