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Tanzania: East Africa’s New Powerhouse

Global Finance

As long as foreign companies fulfill all tax obligations and issue a dividend notice, they can repatriate profits without any penalty. China aligns more closely with the experiences and priorities of developing nations like Tanzania, observes Alpha Capitals Muhingo. This sets it apart from Western rigidity.

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The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip?

Musings on Markets

The first is that they have low correlations with financial assets (stocks and bonds), allowing for diversification benefits and the second is investments in some of these alternative asset groupings have the potential to earn excess returns or alphas.

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

The Variables The variables that I report industry-average statistics for reflect my interests, and they range the spectrum, with risk, profitability, leverage, and dividend metrics thrown into the mix. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Dividend yield & payout 3. Beta & Risk 1. Return on Equity 1.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

I have also developed a practice in the last decade of spending much of January exploring what the data tells us, and does not tell us, about the investing, financing and dividend choices that companies made during the most recent year. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Dividend yield & payout 3. Buybacks 2.

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Bristol Myers Squibb Adds Premier Radiopharmaceutical Platform with Acquisition of RayzeBio

Benzinga

Actinium-based RPTs offer potential advantages over currently available RPTs since the high potency and short firing range of the alpha-emitter create the possibility for stronger efficacy and more targeted delivery. RPTs bind to tumor cells and deliver targeted radiation to induce cancer cell death.

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The Sugar Daddy Effect? Assessing Corporate venture capital, Sovereign funds and Green Energy!

Musings on Markets

With equity investors in the green space, this hoped for payoff takes the form of positive alphas, while directing their money to solar, hydro and wind energy investments, and with green loans and green bonds, the higher returns come from being able to earn higher interest on their lending, given default risk.

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Private real estate companies can ace the US student housing test

Mckinsey and Company

Digital enablement is particularly important in the university setting, since the current (Gen Z) and next generation of students (Gen Alpha, born between 2010 and 2023) are digital natives who prefer digital interfaces.