Month: November 2011

Investing in the World’s Longest-Running Civil War

Burma has been in an almost perpetual state of civil war since 1949. Human rights violations, brutal oppression against a mostly un-armed populace, child trafficking, and living conditions I would not subject a dog to (a central banker yes… a dog no) have been synonymous with Burma since its independence

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Open Source Medicine

Earlier this week I spoke about the growth of industries catering to an ageing population. Biotechnology is one sector that seems disproportionately poised to benefit. With the demographic trend firmly in place, the demand for drugs, combined with the expiration of important drug patents, will act as additional tailwinds behind the

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Cleaning Old Peoples’ Feces – A Growth Industry!

Fresh out of high school I had many goals. Like most goals mine posed some challenges, with a lack of money being centre stage. How to fund tertiary studies, eat, live and pay for it all? I had ventured to a foreign land which enabled me to earn higher wages,

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Betting on an Inevitable and Overlooked Crisis

It seems as if all the present focus in financial markets is on Europe and “solving” their debt crisis. Debt is by far the biggest problem facing the developed world. What is interesting is that there lurks a far greater crisis on the horizon in my opinion, one that dwarfs

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