Today, we have reserved a guest post for Jan De Blonde who is very actively engaged in sustainable farmland investment abroad. Jan is ...
My friend the equity racehorse sent me me the following interesting link which appeared on Dutch television and which basically ...
Vorige zondag (6 mei 2012) verscheen het volgend interview in De Zondag:
Elk jaar omtrent deze tijd publiceert BP zijn Statistical Review of World Energy. Bijna 50 pagina’s grotendeels gevuld met tabellen ...
Door een abrupt beëindigde skivakantie (nauwelijks 50 meter op de latten gestaan) bracht ik de rest van de week haast immobiel en al ...
Well, it's not exactly Moody's but more precisely Fitch, sending out messages which are "surprising" to say the least. Remember ...
Davos, setting of the Thomas Mann novel "Der Zauberberg" and sheltering famous people throughout history such as ...
Following our adventures in today's every changing moods in the world of finance, it's not a bad thing to assess volatility as a ...
You may remember I wrote a piece on Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) , Heineken and Fraser & Neave (F&N) when I was in Singapore earlier ...
My dear friend Sideshow Bob sent me a short note which I think deserves some attention. It opens up the discussion on one of the most ...
Geen kat die deze stelling zal betwisten, maar de impact ervan op de Chinese economie wordt vermoedelijk zwaar onderschat. We hebben ...
De kogel is door de kerk, iedereen van ons kan straks aandeelhouder van Facebook worden. Intekenen op een IPO is echter niet altijd ...
Apple kwam de afgelopen week met de langverwachte medeling over hun spaarpot van 100 miljard $. Een mogelijke overname is nog niet in ...
On March 14th, the Media Innovation Center was launched (under the wings of the IBBT) and baptized 'Mix'. Its goal is to support and ...
Yesterday Fitch released a report with some arithmetics and outlook on the ageing population and how the developed west so far has ...
According to the World Economic Forum, Canadian banks have been ranked as the soundest and most safe banks world-wide, this for 5 ...
Gemini, the immortal twins Castor and Pollux, in this case Dublin and Cork. We picked up an interesting story from out of Bloomberg ...
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You may remember I wrote a piece on Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) , Heineken and Fraser & Neave (F&N) when I was in Singapore earlier this year (March 6th to be exact). I had just visited the high-tech APB plant in Singapore and left very impressed with their activities and unique positioning ...
My dear friend Sideshow Bob sent me a short note which I think deserves some attention. It opens up the discussion on one of the most ancient forms of trading, dating from the days money did not exist. It seems we have a kind of barter revival on our hands. But let's have Sideshow Bob kicking off the discussion : The Chinese ...
Geen kat die deze stelling zal betwisten, maar de impact ervan op de Chinese economie wordt vermoedelijk zwaar onderschat. We hebben het uiteraard over de geboorte beperkende maatregel dat het grootste deel van het land al decennia lang slechts één kind mag hebben.China beheerst de wereldeconomie zoals wellicht nog nooit een land ...
Writing a piece like this after a trip to (a part of) a country is always somewhat difficult. The reason is that you have to be very careful not to extrapolate to the entire country what you have seen in the cities you have just visited. In this particular case, I will try to share with you some thoughts on my recent stay in ...
Het financieel-economisch nieuws wordt nog steeds gedomineerd door 2 parameters: Griekenland (of in het verlengde daarvan de Europese financiële turbulentie) en de vertragende Chinese groei. Deze beide zaken hebben de laatste weken een groter impact op de beurzen dan ander bedrijfsnieuws, zeker nu de kwartaalgebonden ...
I have a confession to make. I like to read books. My goal is to try to read one book a month. There are years in which I easily reach that target, but in other years I fail miserably. Most -let's say at least 75%- of those are work related in some way, and the rest consists of travel literature, John Grisham (I read ...
De film van Michaël Roskam greep finaal naast de Oscar voor beste buitenlandse film. Maar ook zonder de trofee kunnen de recente successen van de Vlaamse film verstrekkende positieve gevolgen hebben. Indien de overheid aansluitend de juiste kaarten trekt. Dit artikel verscheen net voor de Oscar-uitreiking ook als opiniestuk ...
China, de grootste exponent van deze regio, kampt met een dalende groei en sommige media brengen het nieuws alsof het een negatieve groei is. Ronkende titels doen het aantal lezers immers toenemen en dat is altijd goed voor de reclame inkomsten. Voor we het weten dreigen we echter straks het kind met het badwater weg te gooien en ...
Een flink jaar geleden zou deze titel meewarend zijn onthaald, maar anno 2012 zijn de zaken toch wat gewijzigd.Elke mens die weet wat YouTube is, moet er al eens een filmpje van de Chinese spooksteden hebben bekeken. Duizenden appartementen, winkelcentra, grote boulevards en zelfs luchthavens waar de nieuwe verf al begint af te ...
Whenever you hear these words, tourist, buyer or businessman, be aware !! The last couple of weeks, we have been focusing a lot on developments in China and this doesn't relate to the sovereign debt crisis in Europe. No, it concerns China domestically and the various troublesome business news flashes we receive from all kind of ...
The Top 10 of rarest things in the world ? 10. Fine German restaurants 9. Humor and self-criticism 8. Safe biking lanes in Flanders...4. Proposals for public expenditures cuts in Belgium (as part of the 10Bn€ effort) 3. Reliable US statistics 2. Reliable Chinese ...
Apple is on the brink of becoming the biggest company in the world in terms of market capitalization. It will exceed the size of Exxon Mobil, the US oil company. (The chart on the top shows the Market Cap of Nokia and Apple in Bn USD) I am a huge Apple fan, and admire Steve Jobs for every step he ...
When Nick Leeson had a problem in hiding his first transaction losses, he created an error account called 88888. Why ? Because 8 is a lucky number in Asia (China) and so the account was labelled 5 eight because it could use all the luck it could get. It seems Chinese auditors are on the same track.Last week the official Chinese ...
China is slowing down. How much we do not know. Macro-economic numbers are not always reliable, but China makes a league of its own. Official growth numbers were still around 10% in Q1 2011, but they were probably closer to 6%. A story you might have missed, is the Canadian-Chinese version of Madoff. A company named ...
China probeert al geruime tijd om de binnenlandse economie af te koelen. Ze zijn er zich zelf zéér goed van bewust dat je niet oneindig aan +10% kan blijven groeien. Dus willen ze zelf van een hypergrowth (+10%) naar een acceptable growth (7-8%) evolueren. Dit is de kern van de zaak: ze willen zelf hun groei intomen. De vraag is ...
There have been doubts whether China will maintain its supporting power to the world's economy.This role is fueled by two forces, the internal growth of the local market and the export of goods and services to third countries. As for the first one, it seemed that China was at least partly supported by a supply driven economy. ...
There's an old Irish joke about a guy who's lost and desperately looking for the road to Kilearney. When encountering a farmer and asking for the right direction, the answer comes straight : "If you're heading for Kilearney, I wouldn't depart from here". Chinaman's dilemma is identical. The detour ...
Als ik de laatste mails goed heb begrepen gaat Vlaanderen "Vooruit!", in hetbijzonder met overheidsstructuren die groene technologie omvormen van ondernemerschap naar bureaucratie. Ondertussen bouwt China elektrische wagens die beantwoorden aan een vraag vanuit de markt:
What could be the Black Swan of 2011 ?Going through all the forecasts and outlooks that accompany any start of the year, one thing seems to be sure for all economists: China will continue to save the world economy...But what if China slows down ?Impossible ?The Chinese economic indicators leave room for discussion. The economic ...
