Do you remember David Neeleman’s ouster from JetBlue last year? He seemed happy to put a positive spin on it then:
Neeleman, JetBlue’s largest individual investor, will be non-executive chairman. "I’m not a day-to-day operator," Neeleman, 47, said today in an interview. "It’s not something I enjoyed."
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A pair of exchange-traded notes giving investors both long and short exposure to the movement of platinum prices could launch on the New York Stock Exchange as early as Friday…
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If traders don’t recognize the character of the day early, it’s easy to get chopped up in those reversals….
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Speculators are often blamed for artificially inflating crude prices, but some experts say high prices are needed to cut demand and develop new resources….
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They are really helping to ’solve the energy crisis by speeding up the process of incentivizing higher capital spending’ on alternative energy projects….
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With Yahoo off the table, Microsoft plans to challenge Google’s online-ad juggernaut alone. A behind-the-scenes look at its provocative strategy…
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Labour market loosening will add to woes.…
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Labour market loosening will add to woes.…
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Global stock markets have experienced a relatively strong recovery since the middle of March. Although markets in general are still well below previous highs, it makes for interesting reading to reflect on the extent of the correction and subsequent rally.
Please visit my website (by clicking on the heading above) for the full article, as well as other interesting investment snippets.
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CEOs of some of the world’s largest asset managers are now predicting what is known in California as the “Big One”….
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(Madrid, April 25) - The former head of the pension for a large US state has suggested the value provided by funds of funds has increased as a result of market turbulence. Al Samper, former Head of Virginia Retirement System told a gathering of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analysts Association in Madrid recently that protection against the idiosyncratic risks [...]…
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Going somewhere, finally? (Polfoto, Jens Dresling/AP)
The Asian tsunami. The Pakistani earthquake. And now, the cyclone in Myanmar. In each case, the aid economy swung into action, attracting donations in the hundreds of millions from around the world on the back of blanket media coverage. But aid groups depend on one thing [...]…
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When there is low volume, there is relative consensus about market value; when there is high volume, there is uncertainty.
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What do you get when you cross good, thematic long-term investors and stock pickers with quarterly or annual redemptions? Perverse decision-making and style drift. Or a portfolio manager with an ulcer. There is a fundamental mis-alignment of motives in the hedge fund business, and my guess is that it will push truly excellent investors into one of two camps:
Becoming “institutional,” substantially growing assets, running an overly diversified portfolio in order to dampen volatility by pandering to institutional risk-aversion, and generating mediocre returns in the process; or
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One of the ingredients for "bubbles" is the quest for the home run. Investors look to how much they wish to gain rather than to risk and reward.
What happens when this quest intersects with a major downturn in an asset class?
The Foreclosure Boom: Donald Trump
Our local papers have featured ads from Donald Trump, explaining how you can profit from the foreclosure explosion. This article, while a few months old, is typical of what is happening. It is from Seattle, a pretty strong housing area which we visit four times a year for board meetings….
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Downbeat central bank assessment weighs on the Australian dollar.…
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Downbeat central bank assessment weighs on Australian dollar.…
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