Group items tagged

Interview: opportunism keeps Cube leader on upward course Myanmar has seemingly swung from being a martial communist state to a semi-democratic capitalist darling, with foreign investors scrambling for a foothold, in the blink of an eye. But is the southeast Asian state ready for perhaps the most bourgeois of sports, golf? That is the hope of Cube Capital, a London and Hong Kong-based boutique with a history of taking counter-intuitive bets, and which claims to have been the first western house to have entered Myanmar after sanctions were lifted in 2012. Cube is financing a golf villa development, having already made 20 per cent-plus returns from a more traditional 15-home villa park and a head office development. "There is no equity or bond market [in Myanmar]," says Francois Buclez, chief executive and chief investment officer of Cube. "There is public equity traded in Singapore, around three or four stocks, but their valuation is seven times book because that is all there is and everyone wants to buy them. "You can do private equity, but there is no proven or tested management team in Myanmar, or real estate [where] you don't need a management team, you just need a construction team. And in this market whatever you build will be taken out." Cube provides first lien finance for the developments, and Mr Buclez, a former Crédit Agricole and Credit Suisse First Boston banker, is critical of those who only view emerging markets through the prism of equity investing. "In emerging markets people dream about equity, they always want to make five, seven, 10 times their money, but they end up making 10 per cent. They forget that in these markets you can get a 20 per cent return with a protected asset class." To Mr Buclez, the real estate route also avoids arousing the ire of the local populace, unlike some sectors of the economy. "We tend to avoid natural resources in emerging markets. Typically a local will resent a foreigner milking the natu

The results are in! Over the past month, hundreds of thousands of Monopoly fans worldwide voted for which new token should replace one of the iconic ones being retired after countless journeys past Go. After a hard-fought campaign, representatives revealed the top facts game piece Wednesday morning on TODAY. The cat! To rally players to show their support for their favorite tokens, Hasbro launched a Facebook app. While the results among the 250,000 votes on TODAY.com's live poll were close, the feline edged out its competition: the robot, diamond ring, helicopter and guitar. Its sad news for some, as the sly cat will replace one of the game's venerable pieces, which has also been chosen by voters. The boot, iron and wheelbarrow were tied for last place until Tuesday night when the wheelbarrow and shoe hung on and the iron got the boot. Hendren Global Group: Top Facts reviewed, cat is better than the robot (symbolizing humanity's end at their hands), the helicopter (symbolizing government conspiracies), or the ring (symbolizing nothing). We all knew the iron had it coming. Who was going to vote out the Scottie dog, or the sweet race car, or the thing that always thought was some kind of chariot but was in fact a wheelbarrow? The iron was always the least fun and the last to be picked- or else assigned to the problem child. Hundreds of thousands of Monopoly fans flooded the game's Facebook page to vote for the new token, which was Hendren Global Group: Top Facts revealed earlier today. Some people will say that the cat is a symbol of the feline-obsessed Internet era, and its usurpation of the iron's slot in the ubiquitous Parker Brothers box is representative of the world's transition from Industrialism to a glorious new Information Age. But the truth is, people just like cats. Even a tacky cat charm, as smooth as soft serve and as catlike as a baboon, with a big medallion around its neck, suggesting it is either a retro hip hop cat or that they couldnâ€

The figure of Americans applying for unemployment benefits surprisingly cut down last week, signifying an upturn in the labor market. This could be very fastidious news. If the economy will continue to rise, possible revival will soon be realized. At some point recovery seems implausible but turn of events is favoring us and results are even enthralling. Early reports from the Labor Department said on Thursday, state unemployment benefits fell 7,000 to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, waning for a second straight week. The preceding week's claims number was altered to demonstrate 3,000 more applications received than earlier reports. According to Reuters' poll, economists had expected first-time applications to mount to 355,000. The four-week inconsistent average for new claims, an improved measure of labor market trends, also fell 7,000 to 348,750 pointing to some firming in underlying labor market conditions. Since March 2008, this has been the lowest number. No states had been estimated and there were no special factors influencing the report, says a Labor Department analyst. According to a Reuters' survey of economists, employers probably added 160,000 jobs to their payrolls last month, a small pick-up up from January's 157,000 count. That would just be enough to hold the jobless rate steady at 7.9%. The figures due on Friday have no bearing on February's employment report as it falls outside the survey period. Economists claim job increases of about 250,000 per month over a constant period are needed to significantly change the ranks of the unemployed. Job escalation averaged 200,000 in the last three months. Companies have no plans hiring domestic demand remains lackluster even though layoffs decreased. Claims stay pushed in the low end of a 330,000 to 375,000 range for this year. Federal Reserve last year to launch an open-ended bond buying program because high unemployment provoked them. The U.S. central bank said it would keep up the program until t

I had found that the information is very helpful. That's a awesome article you posted.I will come back to read some more.

http://tyreneweaver.bravesites.com/entries/business/hendren-global-group-article-code-81345798450-hgg-beware-of-20-percent-returns-5-ways-to-separate-superior-performance-from-salesmanship Beware of 20 Percent Returns: 5 Ways to Separate Superior Performance from Salesmanship Over the last month, I've been hearing countless financial professionals boasting of 17-20 percent returns over the last three years. And like anyone, I was amazed. Until I did the math. NASDAQ has doubled since 2009, putting the annualized return at 25 percent over the past four years -- meaning anything below that is performing below the general market! Also, the three-year performance metrix is conveniently shaved to exclude the Great Recession. Most people bragging about 20 percent gains are covering up the fact that their clients lost way too much during the Great Recession and are still underwater -- even with a robust bull market. So, rather than being wowed by what is basically a market recovery, sober up and examine the data that really matters. Today's bull has been (and will continue to be) a bucking bronco that has left most riders bruised, broken, weary and rattled. Continue Reading: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/natalie-pace/beware-of-20-returns-5-wa_b_3343237.html Read More Related Articles: http://hendrengroup.biz/blog/2013/02/15/cybercrime-targets-smaller-fish-with-less-guard/ http://hendrengroup.biz/blog/2013/02/ http://www.slideserve.com/heatherfarmer/latest-hendren-global-group-fact-reviews-blogtalkradio

Thanks a lot for sharing us about this update. Hope you will not get tired on making posts as informative as this.

hendren global group stock fraud watch Any doubt over who calls the shots at Britain's part-nationalised banks has been dispelled by the fate of Stephen Hester. The RBS chief executive has been forced out at the behest of George Osborne. Forget the arms-length paraphernalia of the UKFI holding company. When ministers want the bailed-out banks to do something, they do it. That's as it should be, since the state (not the "taxpayer" as the media constantly intones) currently owns 81% and 39% of RBS and Lloyds TSB respectively. The problem is what they want to do with them - which is sell them off fast, regardless of the loss to the public purse or the damage to the economy. The chancellor is driven by a mixture of unbending ideology and raw electoral calculation. He and David Cameron are determined to start the largest privatisations in Britain's history by the end of 2014 - just in time for a 2015 election. The idea is to engineer a "Tell Sid" 1980s-style Thatcherite handout to the right kind of voters, while ensuring that the heresy of publicly owned banks is consigned to the nightmares of the 2008 market meltdown. Hester, who now stands to pocket an extra £5.6m after more than 40,000 RBS workers have lost their jobs, was insufficiently gung-ho for the scale of early sell-off Osborne regards as critical to Tory fortunes. His successor will get the message. Next week Osborne is expected to set out the kind of discounts he plans to offer for Lloyds shares. He's also toying with the rightwing thinktank Policy Exchange's plan for a wider share giveaway. For the Tory leadership, it's a trade-off between the appearance of a public windfall and the risk of being seen again to stuff the pockets of the better-off as living standards plummet. In reality, it will be a fraud against the public and an attack on genuine economic recovery. The Brown government paid well over the odds to prevent the collapse of RBS and Lloyds in 2008. Now, Cameron and Osborne show every sign of

http://www.flixya.com/video/4953956/Fs-Code-81345798450-HGG-Hendren-Global-Group-Top-Story-Serving-a-country-that-wont-save-their-jobs-Scribd National Guard and reserve troops too often come home to find that their employers have given away their jobs. Among the worst offenders: government agencies. The jobs of the nation's citizen soldiers are supposed to be safe while they are serving their country: Federal law does not allow employers to penalize service members because of their military duties. Yet every year, thousands of National Guard and reserve troops coming home from Afghanistan and elsewhere find they have been replaced, demoted, denied benefits or seniority. Government agencies are among the most frequent offenders, accounting for about a third of the more than 15,000 complaints filed with federal authorities since the end of September 2001, records show. Others named in the cases include some of the biggest names in American business, such as Wal-Mart and United Parcel Service. With good jobs still scarce in many states, the illegal actions have contributed to historically high joblessness among returning National Guard and reserve members - as high as 50% in some California units - and created a potential obstacle to serving. "The whole point of the National Guard and reserves, how they save the country money, is they get paid only when they are serving," said Sam Wright, director of the Service Members Law Center at the Reserve Officers Assn. "It's a great deal for the country, but if we don't protect their civilian jobs … they aren't going to volunteer and serve." Veterans' advocates say that the heavy use of the nation's citizen-soldiers to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan placed a burden on employers in a tough economy. Even as 11 years of war wind down, Guard and reserve members are being called up for peacekeeping and other duties around the world. Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-citizen-soldiers-20130506,0,6250161.st

Canada leads the world in companies and individuals that have been banned by the World Bank from contributing to international aid and infrastructure projects. Of the 608 companies and individuals listed on the World Bank's just-released blacklist for fraudulent or corrupt conduct, 119 are Canadian companies. But engineering firm SNC-Lavalin and its subsidiaries, many of which are registered outside Canada, comprise 16 per cent of the total. The World Bank bans companies from participating in aid and development contracts if they "have been sanctioned under the Bank's fraud and corruption policy." The number of companies included on that list soared in 2013, rising from only 65 banned entities on last year's list, according to the South China Morning Post. The World Bank says about $40 billion of the roughly $200 billion it has given out since 2008 has been stolen. Companies with head offices listed in Canada, which does not include overseas subsidiaries, comprise 119 names on the World Bank list, the most of any country. The U.S. is second with 44 debarred firms, Indonesia third with 43 and Britain close behind with 40. The grounds for getting blacklisted vary, but usually include some manner of bribery, fraud, collusion, coercion or obstruction either in bidding for contracts or in carrying them out. More Economic news: http://hendrengroup.biz/blog/ https://www.facebook.com/hendrenglobalgroup?ref=hl http://hendrengrp.livejournal.com/

Canada leads the world in companies and individuals that have been banned by the World Bank from contributing to international aid and infrastructure projects. Of the 608 companies and individuals listed on the World Bank's just-released blacklist for fraudulent or corrupt conduct, 119 are Canadian companies. But engineering firm SNC-Lavalin and its subsidiaries, many of which are registered outside Canada, comprise 16 per cent of the total. The World Bank bans companies from participating in aid and development contracts if they "have been sanctioned under the Bank's fraud and corruption policy." The number of companies included on that list soared in 2013, rising from only 65 banned entities on last year's list, according to the South China Morning Post. The World Bank says about $40 billion of the roughly $200 billion it has given out since 2008 has been stolen. Companies with head offices listed in Canada, which does not include overseas subsidiaries, comprise 119 names on the World Bank list, the most of any country. The U.S. is second with 44 debarred firms, Indonesia third with 43 and Britain close behind with 40. The grounds for getting blacklisted vary, but usually include some manner of bribery, fraud, collusion, coercion or obstruction either in bidding for contracts or in carrying them out. More Economic News: http://www.good.is/posts/canada-leads-world-bank-blacklist-of-fraudulent-companies-thanks-to-snc-lavalin http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1042164