World Bank Report - China 2030

Great report released by  World Bank on China’s slower growth, development goals and path to lead economy by 2030.
The President of World Bank will make it public today in Beijing the full version of its report called China 2030, which includes great analysis on the slowdown of China growth (from 10% average to 5% or 6% in the next years), the development path and the biggest challenges they have to face to complete its transition to market economy and to reach the goal of being the high income country by 2030.

Read the highlights in the link below and the full report later today at the World Bank site.
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/2012/02/27/china-case-for-change-on-road-t-030

Dragon Year – Good to invest in companies involved with assisted reproduction

2012 is the Dragon Year in the Chinese calendar and is consider by most Asian countries, such as Japan, China and Korea as the year of wealth and protection. Due to that lots of couples are running to get marriage and a plenty of them also travelled to countries in Latin and North America to go under treatments for assisted reproduction. The reason is that they believe that children born in the Dragon Year are more enthusiastic and have the energy and vitality to achieve great things and results in life. They also believe that get marriage in the Dragon Year brings protection, happiness and success.
All of this is not only mythology or believes. If you make your research you will see that the number of couples that have registered to get marriage in those countries, since Feb, 14th is increasing and expected to increase much more with Occidental Saint Valentine days. Also number of trips to countries where they can ask for assisted reproduction is higher compared with other years.
Hope that tip is helpful for you to look into your portfolio and see if you have some companies that fits to this increasing seasonal demand for 2012!

Dividends can be a safer heaven when market is turbulent

If you do not have any bonus, funds and or stocks in your portfolio which provide you dividends, you may have there a great opportunity to review and find some investments that fit to your profile and also bring to you some periodic dividends. It is especially important when we have turbulent markets and your portfolio may have ups and downs more frequently than you would manage it to do. Dividends can be paid monthly, quarterly, yearly or any other frequency, but independent on the periodicity, they are for sure a supplemental income for their owners. Consider that if you choose a financial instrument which pays monthly dividends you will have a better chance to quicker identify ups and downs and react faster than if you have longer period. On the other hand, if you have quarterly or longer dividend payments period, you may be able to better manage your taxes practices (such as sell dividend stocks before they pay their dividends instead of after it). Information on high yielding stocks and/or financial instruments can be easily found in sites such as Yahoo Finance!!, Morningstar, among others. So good search and study!!!