Bronte Capital

Nobody has taken my bet . But another fund manager across town is offering a derivative bet (in smaller denomination) that nobody will.  A...

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners is a rival to Financial Planning Australia as an umbrella group for financial pl...

This blog does not usually play war with other bloggers – but something in Ampontan’s criticism of me has got my goat.  So if you do not wa...

Grace – it is said – refers to a Single State only – whereas Sin refers to a multitude.  Good Lending – like a State of Grace – is hard to m...

In the financial crisis governments seemingly regularly guaranteed their banks to stop their banks from collapse. This worked in preventing ...

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...