Bronte Capital
The sometimes eccentric views of John Hempton
Friday, August 24, 2012
Focus Media: My new obsession - original version with annotations
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There are days I should not be allowed to hang around a spreadsheet. This post had not one but two - nearly identical mistakes in it. I si...
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Good due diligence is defined by the deals you walk away from
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As regular readers of this blog know - I don't much like buying stocks where I am competing with potential private equity (PE) buyers ....
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Pricewaterhouse Coopers - the see-no-evil audit firm
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A short post written in frustration. I wrote to PWC (via their email-contact service) asking for an email address to send a large dossier ...
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Monday, August 13, 2012
T-Mobile to go private with the Sole True Hero!
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Fierce Wireless is reporting that there is a private equity bid in the works to buy T-Mobile led by none other than my least favourite telec...
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Friday, August 10, 2012
Advice from the gardening column: XP Power edition
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I have a friend - a journalist - who refers to the stock-tipping parts of his newspaper as "the gardening column": full of plants ...
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Monday, August 6, 2012
Something is happening here and you don't know what it is - do you Mr Hempton: Richemont edition
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I am wrong often enough to hurt - but rarely this fast. Richemont just pre-announced a big sales increase . I expected at best low single-d...
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Richemont: waiting for the bullet
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At my hedge fund we usually short frauds. Stuff with dodgy accounts and dodgy prospects promoted by people who would be car salesmen if stoc...
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Weekend edition: Car Dealers
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I am a hedge fund manager who trades in marketable securities only. I look at a quote in a market - take it or leave it. I have developed ...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Changing my mind on Microsoft
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Seldom have I looked at something that is a major long in the portfolio, changed my mind, sold the entire position and continued selling to ...
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