As any market-watcher knows, investment trusts have enjoyed a good run recently.
Listed on the stock exchange and run by professional managers, they spread your money across dozens of different companies.
Thanks to their stock market listing, investors buy into investment trusts by purchasing shares - owning a stake in the investment company - and unlike investment funds they do not grow or shrink with demand.
The past year has seen investment trusts grow in popularity - with some doubling investors money within a year.
Listed on the stock exchange and run by professional managers, investment trusts spread your money across dozens of different companies
Southeast Asia’s superapp battle, explained
Two of Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing apps Grab and GoJek are making plays to take on Sea Limited, the region’s consumer internet giant.
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Trung T. Phan
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@TrungTPhan
January 7, 2021
Eleven nations make up Southeast Asia (SEA): Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Timor-Leste, Thailand, and (this writer’s country of heritage) Vietnam!
While this market is not nearly as big as China or India, its relatively young combined population of 650m+ people is nothing to sneeze at.
And this week, 2 of SEA’s biggest ride hailing and delivery apps Grab and Gojek made big plays to win the prize.
️ Southeast Asia’s battle of the superapps
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The Hustle
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@TheHustle
January 7, 2021
Southeast Asia’s superapp battle, explained
Eleven nations make up Southeast Asia (SEA): Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Timor-Leste, Thailand, and (this writer’s country of heritage) Vietnam!
While this market is not nearly as big as China or India, its relatively young combined population of 650m+ people is nothing to sneeze at.
And this week, 2 of SEA’s biggest ride hailing and delivery apps Grab and Gojek made big plays to win the prize.
The startups are aping the playbook of WeChat
The Chinese superapp basically combines DoorDash, Uber, Paypal, Cash App, WhatsApp, and Twitter all into one platform.
Covid-19 caused chaos for investors in 2020 but these hedge funds made billions
The funds that did well in 2020 bet early on an acceleration to online as people lived and worked remotely then quickly shifted into a recovery trade betting on restaurants, hotels and travel
(Bloomberg)
Juliet Chung
, The Wall Street Journal
Managers who bet certain stocks would rise and others would fall had their best year in a decade. The biggest winners wagered that e-commerce and cloud computing would thrive while shopping centers and travel struggled
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For little-known hedge-fund manager Jim Davis, 2020 is a career-defining year.
The one-time analyst for famed hedge-fund manager Julian Robertson Jr. came into the year managing $675 million at his Woodson Capital Management. That ballooned to about $1.7 billion by the end of November after bets he made against bricks-and-mortar retailers and on e-commerce firms hit pay dirt. His returns soared more than 100% for the year through Oc
Thiel-backed Bridgetown SPAC weighs up to US$10B Tokopedia deal
Manuel Baigorri, Bloomberg News The PT Tokopedia logo at the company s offices in Jakarta, Indonesia. , Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg
Bridgetown Holdings Ltd., the blank-check company backed by billionaires Richard Li and Peter Thiel, is considering a potential merger with Indonesiaâs e-commerce giant PT Tokopedia, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The special purpose acquisition company is exploring the structure and feasibility of a deal with Tokopedia, one of the most valuable startups in the southeast Asian nation, the people said. The SoftBank Group Corp.-backed firm could be valued at US$8 billion to US$10 billion in a transaction, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the discussions are private.