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After holding the top job in Singapore for J.P. Morgan Chase, Wong, 43, was snatched up in February by DBS Group Holdings, parent of Singapore's largest bank. As chief administrative officer, she wasted no time in designing new structures for how the bank handles everything from diversifying loan-portfolio risk to recruiting employees. In October, Wong moved up to CFO. Her charge: to add greater sophistication to the way DBS manages its capital and help the company further expand into Asian countries such as China, India, Thailand and Indonesia...
Emerging markets should do well as more capital becomes available. Countries like Brazil and Russia are volatile investments, but they're a pure play on global growth and worth 2% to 5% of your stock portfolio. Consider diversified mutual funds such as Acadian Emerging Markets and Vanguard Emerging Markets...
DAGNY MAIDMAN: But that's just talking about stocks. If a client is truly diversified, I don't think we're going to have significantly lower returns than usual. A whole portfolio moves in the best of years up 10% to 15% and in the worst of years down maybe 3%. You need fixed income, equity and some alternative assets like a hedge fund. You might include some emerging-market debt. These things together, I think...
...fashion-industry casting agent had trouble finding others whose enthusiasm matched his. Liya had already spent a couple of years in Chicago slogging away at catalog work, the style world's equivalent of toiling off-off-Broadway. When Liya moved to New York City in 2000, Scully took her portfolio around to designers and advertisers, who unfailingly turned him away. "The line I'd always get was, 'Wait until she's more experienced,'" he says. It wasn't until Tom Ford cast Liya in his show for Gucci that others began clamoring to work with...
...there is empirical data to refute the Williams-as-idiot thesis. The Neptunes (Williams and partner Chad Hugo) are responsible for nine Top 10 hits over the past two years and countless Top 10 rap tracks. No one in hip-hop has as diverse or as deep a songwriting portfolio, and artists from Nelly (Hot in Herre) to Britney Spears (I'm a Slave 4 U) regularly fork over six figures for a Neptunes melody. Williams and Hugo are also members of N.E.R.D., a rock/hip-hop band whose debut album, In Search of ... , was one of the best-reviewed records...