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Investment News & Insights from Commonwealth Funds

At Commonwealth Funds, we’re here to invest our time in providing investment news and insights to benefit fund shareholders. Our insights keep up with the growth of the emerging markets we invest in. These articles help investors grow their financial knowledge, make more informed decisions regarding their assets and investing in emerging markets, and bring it home.

Unveiling Beneficial Ownership Reporting

Read the article published on NASDAQ Starting in January 2024, a new federal law requires entities like Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, and other similar entities that are created by a filing with the secretary of a state or foreign country, to file and continually update a Beneficial Ownership Information (“BOI”) Form with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement… read more

Fed Interest Rate Changes Alone Will Not Get Us Back to Normal

Read the article published on NASDAQ The Federal Reserve’s main tool for reducing inflation is raising interest rates which is why they have raised rates 11 times in the last 16 months. While the growth in inflation is slowing, the prior increases are in many cases embedded in the cost of goods and services we… read more

Challenges on the Path to India’s Prosperity: Finding the Way Forward

By Sanhitha Raghuveera, Global Capital & Strategy Associate at FCA Corp, Houston, Texas I recently had the chance to visit with Patrick Santillo, a Senior Vice President at the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) and former Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. During our conversation, Mr. Santillo reflected… read more

Japan’s New Year’s Resolutions

By Robert Scharar, President of FCA Corp and the Commonwealth International Series Trust mutual funds. Having just spent two weeks in Japan, the Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu Happy New Year greeting was in the air so was the image of the rabbit which is this year’s zodiacal animal. As I interacted with Japanese people and read… read more

Dispatch from Europe: A Cloudy Outlook

By Tom Koch, FCA Corp’s Director, Global Capital and Strategy There is a lot going on in Europe these days, and it takes traveling there and engaging in one-on-one conversation to truly grasp the scope of these issues. For financial professionals, understanding “on-the-ground” sentiment becomes very important to manage risk, understand potential opportunities, and validate broader… read more

Resetting Your Investment Approach

Read the article published on NASDAQ The past few years have provided us with plenty of world-altering events, horrifically bad news and massive challenges. I think the big investment story though is not inflation or the pandemics effects on the economy, but how well many management teams responded to these challenges. It is not just… read more