Bull market

Article Abstract:

Small Japanese investors, including housewives, are purchasing stocks in Japan's expensive wagyu beef herds. The cow trust investments offer interest of 3-8% a year and schemes include pooling investments in one animal, or purchasing a breeding cow and receiving a payment each time a calf is born. There are currently 10 cow trusts in Japan, from the orginal Agra Mutual Ranch trust introduced a year ago. However overseas competition could be a threat as the United States starts to export luxury meats to Japan in two years time.

Livestock, Except Dairy and Poultry, Beef Cattle, Cattle Ranching and Farming, Japan, Beef

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The review contest: fund managers place their $100,000 bets

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Gary Ting, a fund manager with ImPac Asset Management, chose China as Asia's best performing market in the last quarter of 1996, with a hypothetical $100,000. The improving economic conditions in China are having a knock on effect in Hong Kong, where half his portfolio is listed. Chung Man Wing of HSBC Asset Management kept his money in Hong Kong with his best return coming from his wild card. Gary Greenberg of Peregrine Asset Management also chose Hong Kong.

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How the experts see it: get ready for a volatile year

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A panel discusses the investment markets in Asia and the outlook for US interests rates and the dollar in 1997. Elizabeth Tran, chief investment director at IDS Fund Management, believes that bond prices in the US will benefit from restructured entitlement programmes. Graham Muirhead, director at HSBC Asset Management, notes rapid moves in small stocks in Hong Kong, and Bill Barron, director at Invesco Asia, sees the market in India coming close to 4,000.

Securities

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