Hedge fund launches in 2011 increased
Hedge fund launches in 2011 increased to the highest level since 2007, as investors and managers positioned for 2012 amid intense volatility and macroeconomic uncertainty, reported HFR (Hedge Fund Research Inc.) today, the global leader in the indexation, analysis and aggregation of the alternative investment industry. Hedge fund launches totaled 1,113 in 2011, including 270 [...]
Some may have feared that the global economic downturn would have put pay to the overseas property industry as we know it but as International Estate Agent Today (or IEAT as it’s fondly known) has proved, this is far from the case. Delivering not only daily overseas property news but a variety of industry expert [...]
Gioachino Antonio Rossini Italian pronunciation 220th birthday with Google Doodle: (Giovacchino Antonio Rossini in the baptismal certificate)(29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di [...]
EU’s debt compared with Europeans’ household debt mountain.
Away from the markets’ fixation with the debts of Greece and other governments, concern is growing at the painfully slow progress Europe is making in tackling a much bigger mountain of corporate and household debt. With austerity pointing to weak growth if not outright recession, the risk is that the burden of servicing the debt [...]
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz with Google Doodle with amazing gif logo and (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to [...]
New veterinary hospital regulations
I am aware that I don’t give animals the attention they deserve; I postpone writing about animals as I always feel like other subjects are more important. Another reason why I am reluctant to write about animals is there is usually not good news to tell, except this time. Good things also happen; a new regulation [...]
As European leaders haggled Wednesday over how and whether to keep Greece from spinning into uncontrolled bankruptcy next month, one factor was not negotiable: the sheer passage of time, which is complicating efforts to ease Greece’s debts. With each day, the plans to relieve the debts grow more difficult to pull off by the end [...]
Robin Haynes, MD of FSA regulated and award-winning Currency Index, offers his expert comment on today’s quantitative easing by the Bank of England: “The Bank of England’s £50bn extension to its quantitative easing (QE) programme today is not good news for overseas property buyers. Injecting more money into the economy has the effect of diluting [...]
Day you realise you’re in love
If you are in a relationship: Don’t make today the only day you realise you’re in love. Every day should be valentines day, every day you should be honoured, and honour in return. If you write a poem for the day, make it one for every day. When you say ‘I love you’, hope to [...]
Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48. Houston’s publicist, Kristen Foster, said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death [...]
Property acquisition for foreigners
One of the biggest debates in Turkey is if foreigners should be allowed to buy property in Turkey or not and whether there should be a limitation on those interested in purchasing property here. Indeed, many foreigners have purchased property in Turkey in recent years by using special purpose companies or trusted Turkish friends. The [...]
Inspector investigates property scams
TheMoveChannel.com’s Property Inspector: Taking a closer look at global real estate each month. This month, TheMoveChannel.com’s Property Inspector investigates property scams. Scams have evolved in recent years thanks to the internet. As tourists are tricked into renting houses that aren’t on the market and unfinished resorts fail to deliver on fraudulent promises, how can you [...]
Prostate cancer is usually slow growing
Prostate cancer is a cancerous growth which forms in the reproductive gland of the male called the prostate. It is possible for the cancer cells to spread to the lymph nodes and into bones. This type of cancer can cause pain whilst urinating and may cause erectile dysfunction. Prostate cancer is usually slow growing, but [...]
A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday performed the world’s first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said. At the same time, a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, transplanted the face of the same donor onto another [...]