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...guided by what Human Rights Watch says. I am not interested in ratings by Freedom House or whatever. At the end of the day, is Singapore society better or worse off? That's the test. What are the indicators of a well-governed society? Look at the humanities index in last week's Economist, we're right on top. You look at the savings index, World Bank, we're right on top. Economic freedoms, we're on top. What is it we lack? Reporters Without Borders put Malaysia's newspapers ahead of us. In Malaysia the ruling coalition parties...
Officials and business leaders meeting in New Delhi could not have asked for more auspicious news as they gathered last week for the World Economic Forum's annual India Economic Summit. While the three-day event was in progress, the Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex index hit all-time highs. That milestone was followed by the cheering news that the Indian economy grew at an 8% rate during the quarter ending Sept. 30, underscoring once-moribund India's claim to being the fastest-growing free-market democracy in the world...
...part of Los Angeles--based Capital Group Cos., zoomed past star-centric Fidelity Investments this year in total managed assets through September--$738 billion for American Funds, $716 billion for Fidelity. The company is on track next year to topple kingpin Vanguard ($774 billion), which rode the popularity of index funds to surpass Fidelity in 2003. American Funds has quietly become home to six of the 10 largest stock funds in the U.S.--including the biggest of them all, the $117 billion Growth Fund of America. More than $1 of every $3 plunked into a fund these days goes...
...size problem became evident in the '90s, investors began shifting to index funds, where good ideas don't matter. Index funds buy all stocks in a benchmark like the S&P 500 or any of hundreds of others. They guarantee market-matching returns, are hugely popular and make sense for most people. That makes the heady growth at American Funds all the more noteworthy: the company offers not a single index fund, dismissing them as vehicles for guaranteed mediocrity. "We think you can do better," says Jim Rothenberg, one of nine managers of Growth Fund of America. What's more...
King Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan is trying to abolish himself. The enlightened monarch of this tiny Himalayan kingdom, who has introduced such innovations as the use of a Gross National Happiness index to measure Bhutan's wealth, is now urging his people to get rid of him. "Monarchy is not the best form of government," he said last month at a stop on his anti-royalty campaign in the northern town of Haa. "It has many flaws...