Bronte Capital

The sometimes eccentric views of John Hempton

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Those clever people at China Fire and Security and Bain

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I have read the accounts of several dozen Chinese reverse takeover stocks and many traditional IPOs, mostly looking for fraud but also looki...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Longtop makes an announcement

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Longtop Financial Technologies - the subject of several posts on this blog - has made a statement. Here is the release : HONG KONG, May ...
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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Guns, lobbyists, poachers and owl hunters: Northern and Voyager Oil and Gas weekend edition

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I wondered whether I was boring people when I reported posted on Northern Oil focusing on such mundane issues as whether it was appropriate ...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Hot IPOs

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The LA Times has a list of the hottest IPOs of the tech bubble . I am old enough to have forgotten most of these. The party on listing makes...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Longtop Financial: lessons in the morphology of sin, loss of virginity and your 17 year old daughter

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I received an email from a senior guy at a big name hedge fund. They were long Longtop Financial. Longtop is a Chinese financial software co...
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

It's only a Northern Conference Call

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And if you are listening to this conference call You might think the words are going wrong But they're not. They just say it that way (...
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Monday, May 9, 2011

The Steve Madden counter example

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Steve Madden - the designer of the ridiculous high-heeled shoes beloved by teenage tarts - gives me nightmares. And every time I go to m...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

More comment on Longtop's capital efficiency

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The consensus reaction to my last post was that Longtop does not actually provide a cloud based storage service at the petabyte level despi...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Longtop and the remarkable capital efficiency of the Chinese cloud

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A note on the comments: the comments on this post are consistently of the view that (a) the company did not build a cloud-based storage infr...
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