Bronte Capital

This is just a short post - to tie in some loose ends I have. I wrote yesterday about Barclays Global Capital . I have written twice about a...

Barclays is the financial institution in the world that most scares me. Indeed it petrifies me. It is huge (currently the second bigges...

Short post - and an apology. I previously posted on Fun and games in hedge fund land . That post was about a fraudulent (and now disappear...

Macquarie Bank runs a "wrap" product by which Australian retail investors can invest in a range of funds and have all their tax co...

In 2005 I travelled to the UK to study the UK banks. I should have shorted the lot of them. But I didn’t. But for the record here ar...

I subscribe to the GE Press release/blog. Indeed they have a nice page of ordered feeds to become part of your Firefox bookmarks. Many of ...

Joe Gutnick plans to list his Legend Mining in Australia. And THE AUSTRALIAN (News Corps orignal flagship newspaper) has taken his numbers ...

Joseph Gutnick - better known as Diamond Joe Gutnick - is a colourful charachter. Here is a lovely profile from Forbes Magazine which in 1...

Jeff Immelt gets some bad press these days. But I am not convinced he is all that bad. In the financials area (the area which I know well)...

I have previously written about the proposed takeover of St George bank by Westpac. I think Westpac is crazy – somewhat ameliorated by th...