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		<title>ALPHA vs. BETA (Round 3)</title>
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		<title>Lessons for Wealth Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wealth management profitability is being squeezed on a number of fronts and the industry faces some of the pressures hitting the mass market for overseeing client money, according to Deloitte. Risk-shy investors, rising regulatory costs and growing demand for low-margin, passive fund vehicles has the asset management sector in a vice, requiring big changes on how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louayaldoory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12920500&amp;post=768&amp;subd=louayaldoory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seasonal Greetings &amp; Happy New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Letter from Dubai</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pulsating economic jewel of the Middle East is beginning to look a little tarnished. Unshakable during the Arab Spring, Dubai has never been shy about publicising its glitzy attractions, which mostly come down to a property-owning paradise for the wealthy and aspirational. And yet is trouble brewing within the most senior ranks of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louayaldoory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12920500&amp;post=756&amp;subd=louayaldoory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures of the Arabian Nights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. troops are in the process of completing their withdrawl from Iraq by the end of the year. Iran has been preparing for the U.S. withdrawl. While it is unreasonable simply to say that Iran will dominate Iraq, it is fair to say Tehran will have tremendous influence in Baghdad to the point of being able to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louayaldoory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12920500&amp;post=742&amp;subd=louayaldoory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is GREED still Good?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With great sadness, I have sold my beloved and well-enjoyed Bentley GT. Ah, the reasons I have loved that motor car might take a book to describe. It was gorgeous in appearance, sublime to sit in and quite magnificent to drive – whether in town or on the open road. Perhaps best of all, other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louayaldoory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12920500&amp;post=728&amp;subd=louayaldoory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mastering the Machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ray Dalio, the sixty-one-year-old founder of Bridgewater Associates, is a “macro” investor, which means that he bets mainly on economic trends. Bridgewater buys and sells more than a hundred different financial instruments around the world—from Japanese bonds to copper futures traded in London to Brazilian currency contracts. In 2007, Dalio predicted that the housing-and-lending boom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louayaldoory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12920500&amp;post=720&amp;subd=louayaldoory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>European Vision in Trouble?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the context of the ongoing European financial crisis, the issue is not simply whether the euro survives or whether Brussels regulators oversee aspects of the Italian economy. The fundamental issue is whether the core concepts of the European Union remain intact. It is obvious that the European Union that existed in 2007 is not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louayaldoory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12920500&amp;post=712&amp;subd=louayaldoory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“He who suffers much will know much” Greek Proverb</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 28th of October the day last week when the final details of the EU haircut/bailout meeting were released was ironically a very important Greek holiday. It is the day in 1940 when Benito Mussolini presented the Greek prime minister/dictator Ioannis Metaxas with an ultimatum allow Axis forces to occupy strategic parts of Greece or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louayaldoory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12920500&amp;post=703&amp;subd=louayaldoory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Column: The Failure of Risk Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way portfolios are constructed traditionally reflects a mismatch between reality and academic hypothesis – especially the so-called efficient market hypothesis, notes Athanasios Ladopoulos, partner at Swiss Investment Managers and senior fund manager of the Directors Dealings Fund. Efficient market hypothesis posits the existence of non-correlated markets. Reality suggests there is no such thing, partially [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=louayaldoory.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12920500&amp;post=644&amp;subd=louayaldoory&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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