In Europe and Asia, net inflows are driven by fund launches.
Volatility in ICBC's shares led Goldman to report a full-year net loss in Asia in 2011, its first since the 2008 financial crisis.
Asia's slowness on the Net means that many companies and businesses had their names snaffled up before the Net and e-commerce entered the region's collective conscience.
To be sure, Microsoft is spending money to develop high-speed Net services and content in Asia (it is teamed with Hong Kong's major phone company on a broadband portal).
Because the strong cost cutting undertaken by corporate America , Asia and Europe we also see record net income gains that have driven a rally of over 90% in the MSCI All-Country World Index of 45 nations.
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Asia is now home to more high-net-worth, or HNW, individuals than any other continent.
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Still, given the Net's rapid growth in Asia, most experts expect online commerce to eventually pay off.
One of the best Net companies I've seen in Asia so far is the simplest.
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In this case, East Asia has been less affected because most countries there are net creditors.
In Asia, where far more people carry cellphones and watch TV than surf the Net, the investments also acknowledge that Internet content will in the future be accessed over different types of wired and wireless networks and on various devices, not just computers.
For the first time ever, the Asia-Pacific region, dominated by China, is now home to more high net worth individuals (HNWI) than all of Europe.
The population of high net worth individuals grew 8.3% to 10.9 million, with Asia-Pacific leading in terms of overall numbers of individuals entering the ranks of millionaire.
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Comparable store sales increased 15% in Europe and Asia during the holidays, and with currency exchanges, the company still reported a 10% increase in net sales and an 8% increase in same-store sales, prompting the company to raise its guidance to include the unexpected consumer jump back into the luxury market.
On a constant-exchange-rate basis, an expected high-single-digit percentage increase in worldwide net sales includes sales growth in all regions, ranging from a mid-teens percentage increase in Asia-Pacific to a low-single-digit increase in Japan.
Hence when the company said that it is changing its previous policy of allocating 50% of net income to dividends and stock repurchases and will allocate more profit to investing in growth in the Asia region, including India, and the Middle East, its stock was bid up 3% in afternoon trading.
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It was sold in Asia, Europe and the U.S., and subscribed to almost equally by institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals.
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