In June, Richard Baker, chairman of a congressional sub-committee on capital markets, insurance and government-sponsored enterprises, introduced legislation that would require investors to be given more information about mutual-fund fees and other features of the business, such as fund managers' pay.
Nick Vink, the South Africa expert I cited in the blog post, told me that there are growing markets in sub-Saharan Africa.
You could, for example, buy the iPath Dow Jones-AIG Lead Total Return Sub-Index or PowerShares DWA Emerging Markets Technical Leaders.
People will only drive so far for a sub sandwich, so in-filling existing markets was big, too.
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If less-afflicted areas of sub-Saharan Africa are now heralded as emerging growth markets by economists and investors, the continent retains more than its share of tormentors.
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Often this allocation consists of a simple mix between stocks and bonds, and is then further refined using sub-asset classes such as developed international stocks, emerging markets, Treasury bonds, corporate bonds and so forth.
Coalition sub-group: all of those who defend truly free markets as the tried-and-true path to human advancement.
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Mauritius, the second-highest-ranked Sub-Saharan economy, also scores poorly on university education and labour markets.
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 6 of the 10 fastest growing markets in the world.
But when the sub-prime mortgage market turned sour, the darling of the financial markets became the Black Hole equation, sucking money out of the universe in an unending stream.
So it was that SCF became known as "Ethical Investing" and Western and Muslim financiers began lecturing the world that the fraud and abuse of the financial markets, such as the Enron debacle and now the sub-prime securitization meltdown, were all driven by the desire for forbidden gain through interest and gambling.
The polemical edge is unrelenting: deregulation of the financial markets was a disaster, and piling collateralized debt obligations and insurance swaps atop sub-prime mortgages was insane.
While sub-prime has morphed into a naughty word, a near clone has stealthily infiltrated the mortgage markets, choking the breath out of many unfortunates ensnared by its enervating tentacles.
Some of Google's steps toward giving emerging markets wireless access are public, with the company working with other organizations to convince governments in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia to change regulations to create new wireless networks using previously restricted airwaves.
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