Bronte Capital

Somewhere in the debate about prohibiting proprietary trading in certain banks we will need a decent understanding of what proprietary tradi...

A long while ago I did some work on Rent-A-Center – a company in the difficult and arguably immoral business of “rent-to-buy”.  Rent-to-buy...

Being a fund manager involves many skills.  One of the rarer ones is trying to work out what redacted government documents say.  The Departm...

Here is an article which blames the regulator for allowing Astarra to go on as long as it did. It is not the only such article. The article...

In Mid September I wrote a letter to Australian regulators which detailed my concerns about a fund manager in Australia known as the Astarra...

I will leave aside Felix Salmon calling me “socially useless” (as a short seller) until I am in a position to reveal my pithy reply.  For t...

I am just back from my summer holidays on the New South Wales South Coast.  To my (mostly) Northern Hemisphere readers I should boast about ...

The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (the FERC) is charged – amongst other things – with regulating the rate of return on interstate nat...

The distinctly cooler Mr Hempton (my cousin Nick) is doing a gig (with his band) at Smalls Jazz Club Saturday night. Its 183 West 10th str...

One of the joys of the blog is that I have several readers who are WAY smarter than me.  One pointed out that I did NOT get it wrong in my P...