Flemings excels at selling emerging-market equities to American and European investors, but offers little else.
Some 15% of Flemings (and nearly a third in Antwerp) now vote for them.
If Wall Street continues to soar while Asia and Latin America stagnate, Flemings and others will struggle.
McBean was born in Wales in 1904 and lived at Flemings Hall, Bedingfield up to his death in 1990.
MC's operations to Flemings, a British investment bank with a large emerging-market business.
Even so, fund managers such as Pioneer and Flemings are putting their marketing effort into educating these brokers to promote their funds.
Unemployment in Wallonia is more than double that of Flanders, and twice as many Walloons as Dutch-speaking Flemings are employed by the state.
This has made the Flemings all the more determined to insist on the use of Dutch in the Flemish areas around the city.
ECONOMIST: Rows over who should speak in which tongue have got worse
The problem has its roots in the sensitive area around Brussels where the French-speaking Walloons and the Dutch-speaking Flemings live side by side.
ECONOMIST: Rows over who should speak in which tongue have got worse
This is why Flemings, for instance, is trying to cosy up closer to its sister company, Jardine Fleming, in which it has a 50% stake.
Mr De Wever argues that the party is standing up for Belgium's Flemings, who make up 6 million people in a country of 11 million.
The Walloons make up about 40% of Belgium's 10.5m population, while the Flemings, who are based in the northern half of the country, represent the majority.
American fund powerhouses such as Fidelity, Templeton and Pioneer, and big British fund managers such as Flemings, have already spent freely to set up shop in Europe.
Flemings SMA Professor of Materials Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Professor of Management in the Johnson School at Cornell University and Fellow in the Singapore-MIT Alliance.
Flemings dislike both the size of the tax burden and the sense that they subsidise the French-speaking, southern half of the country, where unemployment is higher and wages lower.
Perhaps it is the Flemings' minority mentality that accounts for one of the oddest and most disquieting features of Belgian politics: the strength of the far right in prosperous Flanders.
The Flemings harbour a special grievance about the city, for it was once predominantly Flemish, and some Flemings still hope it may yet be the capital of an independent state of Flanders.
ECONOMIST: Rows over who should speak in which tongue have got worse
Yet the two have a lot in common, especially if you compare the southern Dutch with Belgium's Flemings (the country's northern, Dutch-speakers, whose half of the country is richer than the French-speaking Walloons' southern bit).
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