Bronte Capital

There are a few comments on the blog that annoy me.  One for instance is repeated below: A review of the transcript will show that Buff...

Warren Buffett did one of his regular (extended) interviews with CNBC.  I think he appreciates the charm and attention from Becky Quick – ev...

Felix Salmon has a lovely post where he picks apart the news values of the Wall Street Journal – including picking apart differences betwee...

I have written a submission to the Cooper Review of Superannuation (that is privatized social security) in Australia.  You can find it he...

The Astarra funds were amongst the top performing sold retail in Australia.  According to the advert below it is because of market timing....

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 ...