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These investors, who comprise a segment of the
current database of investment brokers, have one
peculiar thing in common: They go for
investment options which most other investors
are unlikely to go for at any particular point
in time. For example, when everyone else
believes that now is the right time to unload
certain stocks, funds, bonds, etc., from his
portfolio, these people will do exactly the
opposite. They believe that the prevailing
market sentiment will, indeed, actually cause a
reversal of trends, and that they, who invest in
the opposite direction (hence the
term "contrarian") will be the first ones to
benefit from the trend reversal. Their names
initially came from a pool of investor
prospects. They were sent a questionnaire
designed to gauge their preferences, and those
with contrarian tendencies were identified.
Region:
Western Europe 174,234
Eastern Europe 34,893
North America 68,955
Central America 8,204
Caribbean 9,896
South America 15,850
Far East 90,371
South Asia 9,129
Central Asia 6,989
Middle East 17,135
Oceania 21,607
Africa 17,319
Geographical:
Western Europe-
134 Aland Islands
66 Andorra
7,497 Austria
139 Azores
8,739 Belgium
2,353 Cyprus
8,030 Denmark
130 Faroe Islands
7,675 Finland
17,254 France
17,739 Germany
79 Gibraltar
6,788 Greece
93 Guernsey
355 Iceland
7,143 Ireland
82 Isle of Man
16,722 Italy
94 Jersey
146 Liechtenstein
2,097 Luxembourg
2,264 Malta
121 Monaco
9,449 Netherlands
6,966 Norway
8,917 Portugal
43 San Marino
9,981 Spain
8,562 Sweden
9,271 Switzerland
15,303 United Kingdom
2 Vatican
Eastern Europe-
57 Albania
601 Belarus
1,022 Bosnia-Herzegovina
2,131 Bulgaria
1,555 Croatia
4,260 Czech Republic
1,777 Estonia
4,171 Hungary
40 Kosovo
1,688 Latvia
1,732 Lithuania
62 Macedonia
557 Moldova
144 Montenegro
4,437 Poland
2,043 Romania
4,659 Russia
712 Serbia
1,333 Slovakia
1,244 Slovenia
668 Ukraine
Northern Africa-
1,289 Algeria
238 Canary Islands
238 Ceuta
56 Chad
2,885 Egypt
43 Libya
247 Madeira
38 Mali
40 Mauritania
238 Melilla
1,156 Morocco
41 Niger
42 Sudan
382 Tunisia
3 Western Sahara
North America-
38 Aleutian Islands
30,382 Canada
384 Greenland
2,353 Mexico
95 St Pierre et Miquelon
35,703 United States
Central America-
359 Belize
1,643 Costa Rica
1,359 El Salvador
1,289 Guatemala
1,147 Honduras
1,076 Nicaragua
1,331 Panama
South America-
1,980 Argentina
653 Bolivia
4,127 Brazil
1,707 Chile
1,395 Colombia
1,473 Ecuador
93 Falkland Islands
252 French Guyana
267 Guyana
361 Paraguay
1,590 Peru
23 South Georgia & The South Sandwich
Is
271 Surinam
380 Uruguay
1,278 Venezuela
Caribbean-
183 Anguilla
236 Antigua and Barbuda
147 Aruba
277 Bahamas
271 Barbados
103 Bermuda
243 British Virgin Is
234 Cayman Islands
347 Cuba
192 Dominica
1,590 Dominican Republic
196 Grenada
470 Guadeloupe
1,345 Haiti
657 Jamaica
465 Martinique
47 Montserrat
169 Netherlands Antilles
1,563 Puerto Rico
187 St Kitts-Nevis
169 St Lucia
154 St Vincent and the Grenadines
450 Trinidad and Tobago
46 Turks and Caicos
155 US Virgin Islands
Far East-
934 Brunei
312 Cambodia
11,862 China
80 East Timor
310 Guam
11,578 Hong Kong
5,688 Indonesia
7,320 Japan
276 Laos
650 Macau
5,901 Malaysia
175 Mongolia
579 Myanmar
324 Northern Marianas
9,662 Philippines
10,158 Singapore
6,256 South Korea
5,546 Taiwan
12,287 Thailand
470 Vietnam
Oceania-
188 American Samoa
11,933 Australia
46 Christmas Island
45 Cocos (Keeling) Is
121 Cook Islands
810 Fiji
470 French Polynesia
267 Kiribati
186 Marshall Islands
299 Micronesia
56 Nauru
459 New Caledonia
3,737 New Zealand
47 Niue
47 Norfolk Island
108 Palau
1,161 Papua New Guinea
22 Pitcairn
377 Samoa
412 Solomon Islands
46 Tokelau
291 Tonga
54 Tuvalu
365 Vanuatu
60 Wallis and Futuna
Central Asia-
579 Armenia
792 Azerbaijan
679 Georgia
1,317 Kazakhstan
650 Kyrgyzstan
707 Tajikistan
622 Turkmenistan
1,643 Uzbekistan
Middle East-
1,317 Bahrain
615 Iran
1,786 Israel
419 Jordan
139 Kuwait
888 Lebanon
1,278 Oman
322 Qatar
4,127 Saudi Arabia
310 Syria
314 Turkey
5,298 United Arab Emirates
318 Yemen
South Asia-
496 Bangladesh
25 Bhutan
4 British Indian Ocean Terr
6,256 India
86 Maldives
180 Nepal
647 Pakistan
1,431 Sri Lanka
Sub-Saharan Africa-
167 Angola
94 Benin
70 Botswana
167 Burkina Faso
118 Burundi
215 Cameroon
42 Cape Verde
71 Central African Rep
45 Comoros
70 Congo
508 Cote d'Ivoire
266 Democratic Rep of the Congo
45 Djibouti
42 Equatorial Guinea
93 Eritrea
277 Ethiopia
48 Gabon
48 Gambia
241 Ghana
118 Guinea
48 Guinea-Bissau
253 Kenya
70 Lesotho
71 Liberia
192 Madagascar
166 Malawi
48 Mauritius
40 Mayotte
218 Mozambique
437 Namibia
331 Nigeria
45 Reunion
119 Rwanda
40 Sao Tome and Principe
143 Senegal
37 Seychelles
94 Sierra Leone
3,772 South Africa
10 St Helena
48 Swaziland
252 Tanzania
93 Togo
244 Uganda
144 Zambia
579 Zimbabwe
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