Bronte Capital

The sometimes eccentric views of John Hempton

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Lightsquared - some comments

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I usually find Senator Charles Grassley's attempts to provoke spats with big-name hedge fund managers tendentious. But in his spat with...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Mr Fred allows me a victory lap...

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Sir Fred was not a good man - He had his little ways. And sometimes no one spoke to him For days and days and days. And men who came acr...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

Does my butt look fat in this?

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Kid Dynamite summed up the case for lululemon athletica inc (always spelled in fashionable lower case) very simply. His sister, and presumab...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Sky People Fruit Juice and the trials of a short seller

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Just a link for today - to Roddy Boyd talking about Kevin Barnes and Sky People Fruit Juice . Roddy is someone I always read. If Sky Peo...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Diversions: Wild is the wind

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Just had a fabulously productive day at work (meaning I got a long way towards some money-making ideas). And for that I am happy enough fo...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Tesco - request for comments

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The number of problem long investments in my portfolio doubled overnight - from one to two. (We have some small problem longs and some large...
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Friday, December 30, 2011

The forthcoming irrelevance of the Australian consumer electronics retailers

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This is a post aimed squarely at my hedge fund manager readers who regularly ask me what to short in Australia. The most obvious target (in ...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Sears Holdings liquidation sale

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We have been short Sears Holdings, publicly , albeit in small quantity. Being summer in Australia I did not even look at the market for the ...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

Future Joseph Jett traders get a Christmas card from Mario Draghi

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Well the Euro fix is in. Whether it works - that is another question. But the fix is this: European banks can borrow unlimited amounts for t...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Peculiar goings on at Blogger

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This post is a short apology. Somehow yesterday a post I part-wrote in September - left in draft and never finished - got circulated to my e...
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