Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 19th, 2009
Since last year I’ve been buying mutual funds and stocks. Now it’s time to check their performances. Prior to knowing something about stock investing, I bought some 5-star ( ranking given by morningstar.com ) stock funds out of insecurity. I thought the fund managers are professionals and I could count on them. Later after some [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2009
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I’m impressed by Google China’s features that are currently unavailable in Google elsewhere. In Google China’s map service, one can search how to travel from place A to B with public transportation. Yes Google US has that too, but it covers simply too few cities. In Europe, such kind of service is already very sophisticated, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 17th, 2008
Well, the market has been wildly bloody these days. But for those who have never got their hands dirty with equities (most Germans are such people), I can only say, you only get great chance like this once every 30 or 40 years. It’s time to build a long position in equity market.
The financial crisis [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2008
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Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) becomes the newest most profitable bank of the world (source: bloomberg.com) Last year, the champion was Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). Below is a list of the top ten largest banks by market capitalization (rank, bank name, country, market cap in billion dollars):
1. Industrial & Commercial [...]
Posted in Germany, finance, investment on Jul 29th, 2008
I watch ARD’s Börse report (equity market report) at around 19:55 almost everyday. Today a gentleman in the program said, in countries like Sweden and the Netherlands, 30+% citizens hold stocks. In Germany, only around 5% citizens are shareholders. The gentleman said this is not a good sign, the Abgeltungssteuer (capital gain tax) for long-term [...]
Posted in finance, investment on Jul 28th, 2008
Disclaimer: the main purpose of this note is to help myself distill and internalize the information from the investment books, mags and websites I read. If you feel it’s informative, I’d be very glad. But please do not take it as your investment guide. People have different personalities, what appears very right to me, might [...]
Posted in finance, investment on Jul 27th, 2008
Disclaimer: the main purpose of this note is to help myself distill and internalize the information from the investment books, mags and websites I read. If you feel it’s informative, I’d be very glad. But please do not take it as your investment guide. People have different personalities, what appears very right to me, might [...]
Posted in finance, investment on Jul 24th, 2008
Disclaimer: the main purpose of this note is to help myself distill and internalize the information from the investment books, mags and websites I read. If you feel it’s informative, I’d be very glad. But please do not take it as your investment guide. People have different personalities, what appears very right to me, might [...]
Posted in finance, investment on Jul 22nd, 2008
A while ago I started to work as a software engineer for a company in Hannover. I spend about one hour per day on trains between Hannover and Hildesheim. My father sent me some cash for getting a new car. I got car magazines, did some homework and made a schedule with a car dealer. [...]
Posted in Germany, finance, investment on Jul 13th, 2008
Disclaimer: this entry is only my personal opinion, it should not be taken as investing guide. Please do your own research for your investing choice.
This entry tries to study the possibilities of protecting personal income in a period of high inflation. This topic actually can be discussed in a thick book if we really go [...]
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Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
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