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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: MoneyPenny who wrote (41923)	12/3/2003 6:05:55 PM
From: Mark Adams	of 74559

I happened to be looking over the TDF/TEF closed end funds today. I noted this in the June 03 semi-annual report: In efforts to attract foreign investors to Taiwan’s financial markets, the Securities and Futures Commission and the Taiwan Central Bank eased the qualifications and application process of its Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor program by eliminating the investment experience requirement and relaxing the minimum investment size. I sorta remember reading the QFII phrase earlier today in the WSJ- or somewhere- re a limited group of investment banks being allowed to buy into Chinese A shares. Ahh, yes Big Investors Wade Into China, But Focus Stock Buys Narrowly online.wsj.com Could be the Templeton funds managers are limited today in their ability to gain exposure to the chinese A shares, but are looking forward to a day where they can. I think I might prefer the wider range of markets covered by EMF, which also has a good amount of ASEAN exposure. Something from an another article that might be of interest to the thread; I've not checked it out yet. Not all overseas firms work with U.S. clients, though. The best bet: email online brokerage firms overseas and ask about their policy on opening accounts for U.S. investors. Singapore's Kim Eng Holdings Ltd., for instance, accepts U.S. investors and through its Ongline.com unit provides Internet access to trading in Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia. online.wsj.com Finding Ways To Surmount The Great Wall By JEFF D. OPDYKE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

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