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Guest post by Jeremy O’Friel, CFA The terrible tragedy in Japan and the continuing instability in the Middle East have served to remind us all how tenuous this global recovery really is. Yet it is worth considering whether or not we can even consider the global economy as being in recovery mode. Certainly, the boffins [...]

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Guest post by Robert Waddington – As Infinity’s Director of Corporate Benefits, Jerome Robertson advises multi-national  corporates on their employee benefits packages, typically for expatriates and third nationals. His career journey to date reflects the essential qualities he inherited as a boy, and which continue to shape his success. This success is evident in Jerome’s [...]

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Guest post by Cameron Cooper – It is a rare person who doesn’t love music. It affects us in a very fundamental way, bringing forth long-forgotten memories, inducing us to do something as frivolous as dancing. We have been beating rocks together, playing bone flutes, banging animal skins with sticks and singing our hearts out [...]

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Guest post by Mike Campbell – Today, most people have an occupational pension that they and their employer pay into. This article looks at the product which is bought with this fund when you retire and explains what an annuity is and a little of its long history. The historical origin of the Annuity An [...]

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Infinity held its 6th annual conference in January on the quiet and beautiful island of Langkawi. Surrounded by nature, and somewhat isolated the event was a great opportunity for all teams across Asia to come together, reconnect, brainstorm, learn and revitalise themselves. Tirian were excellent at providing a stimulating environment for team building and leadership [...]

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Guest post by Rupert Waddington – The link between sun bathing and skin cancer is long established, with dire warnings to cover up or stay in the shade. However, current research is establishing that we do in fact need sunshine and without it increase the risks from many familiar but serious illnesses. This marks a [...]

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If social media – Facebook and Twitter – was a child, it would be just about half way through middle school by now, yet the power to bring like-minded people together online is so phenomenal that it is being used to topple regimes. The ‘Facebook Revolutions’ have resulted in Tunisia and Egypt changing government, and [...]

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Sanlam Investment Management Global Best Ideas Fund is a global equity fund with an unconstrained mandate. It is run from Cape Town and is managed on the basis of primary bottom up research, and runs a significant tracking error relative to its benchmark, the MSCI World index. Typically the fund would hold around 50 securities. [...]

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It’s no secret that the way we interact and communicate with each other drastically changes from day to day. This has resulted in different ideas and attitudes towards all aspects of society and cultural life, especially for young adults. The teenagers of today tend to lead more independent lifestyles than their counterparts from the past [...]

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Honestly, I would have expected to have seen some sort of clear and probably negative trends in the markets by now, this is not the case. The dow jones has continued to soar to new heights following on from the financial crisis, news seems to be somewhat positive in the financial markets yet when we [...]

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I first came to Nepal some 15 years ago and was struck by the tenacity and resilience of the Sherpas, the inhabitants of the high Himalayas. Living at altitudes that leave most mortals gasping for breath, carrying loads that defy description, and cheerfully performing incredible feats on Mount Everest and the other 8,000 metre giants, [...]

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The APM Global Trend Fund is a typical managed futures fund in many ways. Firstly, it is systematic and secondly it is trend-following in nature. The underlying manager is Eckhardt Trading Company of Chicago, one of the longest standing firms in the managed futures space. The firm was founded by Bill Eckhardt and the track [...]

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Infinity is renowned among its peers for looking out for the interests of its clients; what many may not know is that we are also determined to help many of those whom we have never met. Throughout the year we sponsor and take part in several programs to help those less fortunate than ourselves. This [...]

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Integrity is Integral As Finance Director for Infinity Financial Solutions, Benjamin Bennett is responsible for the expanding company’s budgeting, accounting, contracts, and compliance; however, as a founding partner, he’s played an equally large role in developing the company’s trademark integrity and commitment to independence, diversity, and impartiality. British born and son to a self-made businessman [...]

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With the 2010 World Cup still fresh in memory, sports fans and Olympic organisers in London are now champing at the bit to upstage Beijing’s spectacular Olympic triumph with their own in 2012. Yet what does 2011 have in store? The sporting world remains hungry for something to occupy the interval. Luckily there’s rather a [...]

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Despite global stock markets entering a bear market phase in 2000 from which they have yet to fully recover (this period is often referred to as the ‘lost decade’), equities continue to play a hugely significant role in the performance of many investment portfolios. Small private investors and large institutions alike are continuing to allocate [...]

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In today’s investing world where many established markets have been lurching into loss in lockstep, investors are hungry for other options. They want new opportunities to match the mouthwatering performances of emerging markets such as Brazil and China in years gone by, and are prepared to accept higher risk for them. For healthy diversification of [...]

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Although technology has extended our power of our organs (telescopes with the eye, cars with feet, telephone with the voice), human engineers have had a terrible time figuring out how to apply that magic to our waistline: Medicines and food additives either don’t work or are dangerous, workout machines are dreary, and surgery is more [...]

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Last week I was in Berlin, which is the capital not only of Germany but also of the European Union (Does anyone still think it is Brussels?). On Friday afternoon, I was rushing to catch a flight, jumped into a taxi and headed for the airport. The journey took some 45 minutes and I was [...]

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As we take stock of 2010 and look ahead I am sure we have all had our fair share of joy and sadness. As someone who has worked in Cambodia for a significant period of time, I was saddened by the tragic events of the water festival and how many families were affected by death [...]

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