Foreigners considering investing in Korea are swamped with concerns -- from where to set up office and who to hire to even more basic questions of how they're going to communicate once they arrive.A new kind of business center, however, opened yesterday, guaranteeing solutions to all such ...
In spite of that, in spite of having some very important steel technology that they have that nobody else in the world has, Posco is selling like an ordinary commoditized steel company. It’s very, very hard to avoid being commoditized in high powered competition in the modern world. In...
it remains a challenging and risky frontier market going into 2017. Investors should keep in mind that the democratic transition is far from consolidated and that economic reforms might not continually progress, while the potential for political backsliding or stagnation is high. The...
Government policies aim at ensuring that foreigners work with Indonesians to assist in development of the country's economy and skill-base. There is a general recognition that Indonesia needs the development capital, and the technical and management skills of foreigners. Government regulation of ...
In fact, the Kuwaiti Investment Office and I were the two biggest foreigners in the Australian market back then. After I ‘d been doing this for a bit over a year, I got an offer to manage a global equity portfolio for an obscure mutual fund complex whose global fund had a woeful ...
dollars. Those are foreigners who’ve borrowed money according to the BIS and they borrowed dollars. That tends to be Chinese companies, South Korean companies, European banks, European corporates, and a bunch of other entities. That is a complicated situation, one of the reasons why everyone ...
…unstable governments, hostility toward foreigners, difficulty getting money in and out, and untrustworthy financials. And in 2000, Xi replaced Deng and Putin replaced Yeltsin–both moves that had terrible adverse consequences for Russia and China. Anyway, catchy acronym with no substance ...
That is, without changing their samurai code of unquestioned obedience, the assumptions that the oldest are the wisest and that warrior spirit trumps research and planning, with a healthy dose of distain for women and foreigners. Technically a different structure; in reality, pretty much no change...
Also, if past form holds true (and I think it will),domesticborrowers–not foreigners–would be the first to desert the Treasury market in large numbers. This means that worry about Treasuries will express itself initially, and primarily, through higher interest rates, not a weaker currency. ...
So, he organized a casino business, only foreigners can play, he didn’t want to ruin the locals. I would not have slept with the devil that much. But he was no longer really in power when that happened. If he’d still been young, I’d like to think he would not have done that...