Issue: November 10, 2008 (Archive)

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Solid education
Private equity firms, betting that Asia's obsession with childhood education is recession-proof, are increasingly investing in the fast-growing private learning sector.

Go for broke
Wang Yi, who employs 300 people making children's raincoats on China's east coast, is worried his company won't survive the next year as exports dry up. The apparel manufacturer, which supplies European supermarket chains Tesco and Aldi Group, needs a 600,000 yuan (HK$683,100) loan by January 31 to stay afloat. State-owned banks rejected his previous applications.

Tips for handling the financial tsunami
With former US federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan describing the last few weeks as a "once in a century credit tsunami," it is time to take stock and start to clean up the debris.

Time for the markets to shut down
MAYBE IT IS TIME for the markets to shut down for one week.

Raw deals
The specter of commodity defaults looms large in Asia as buyers walk away from deals sealed before prices plunged amid the recent financial tsunami, and analysts fear the worst is yet to come, compounding the woes of industry hit by tighter credit.

The return of Mr Value
THE WORLD HAS little to offer but blood, sweat and tears. With fear prevailing in the financial system, everyone, directly or indirectly, is feeling the pain.

Fresh fizz
Bryan Gunderson applied his knowledge of finance in JPMorgan Chase's structured-equity investments unit until he lost his job in June. Now he plans to sling US$12 (HK$93.60) rum and Cokes.

What to do in a crisis?
THIS ARTICLE IS a direct attack on financial advice that seems to be telling the layman when to buy, when to sell, and even what to swap into; buy gold and precious metals when stocks crash.

Hidden gem
Vendors hawking handbags and fruit along downtown Accra's Liberia Road are busier than the traders five stories upstairs on the Ghana Stock Exchange.

How will the crisis end?
"Nobody knows nuffing," says Kevin Hinton, paraphrasing the septuagenarian head of Jupiter Asset Management. The occasion? Hinton was opening the London Think Tank, sponsored by RMB Asset Management.

Specialists lose out in the long term
Despite where the Hang Seng Index went, there was encouraging news for retail investors last week - you are never going to open yourself up to more than HK$15.5 billion in potential losses through foreign exchange bets.

Out of breath
Long before she filed for bankruptcy, Ann Neukomm was "under water" - she owed more on her mortgage than her house was worth - a situation more and more Americans are finding themselves in.

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