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Articles of the author Kamran Butt
Investors should know commodities in their portfolios
IN the past, commodities were seen as an excellent diversification tool for investor's portfolios, providing returns uncorrelated to some extent to the capital markets. In fact, investors usually require from a commodities allocation to offer three (...)

08 - 03 - 2017
Guarded optimism on emerging markets in '17
AS we come to a turbulent end of 2016, a challenging yet hopeful 2017 outlook characterizes the emerging markets (EM) world. With economic growth rates being revised higher for the US and stabilization in China, this would typically compel us to (...)

21 - 12 - 2016
Investors should stay disciplined and well diversified
IN a year branded by populism and inward policy placement, the US election and the Brexit vote have dispensed a significant blow to globalization. Both events have added to the sense of a rising tide of populism, and also likely to have implications (...)

19 - 11 - 2016
Investors fixated on factors that drive gold prices
GOLD is one of the best-performing asset classes this year, up nearly 24 percent. However we are still 30 percent lower than the highs reached in September 2011. So a lower base effect has been one of the main drivers in 2016. But investors have (...)

19 - 09 - 2016
Investors fixated on factors that drive gold prices
Gold is one of the best-performing asset classes this year, up nearly 24 percent. However we are still 30 percent lower than the highs reached in September 2011. So a lower base effect has been one of the main drivers in 2016. But investors have (...)

19 - 09 - 2016
Second half of 2016 bodes well for well-diversified investments
2016 has been quite a year so far and we still have six months to go. It seems like an eternity has passed since the warnings of a possible Asian crisis driven by fear of Chinese currency devaluation during the start of the year. At the time of (...)

27 - 07 - 2016
KSA a secular growth story in the making?
AS investors we spend a lot of time thinking about long term investing and how we can capture value or growth at an early stage. Whether it is investing in disruptive technologies, sustainability or demographic trends. One very important find for (...)

17 - 06 - 2016
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