Bronte Capital

The sometimes eccentric views of John Hempton

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Unfriending

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Facebook has become totally unusable to me. There are a small number of people I don't communicate with every day - but who are old frie...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

When the hedge doesn't work

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I run a hedge fund which means I am meant to hedge risk. However if you hedge away all your risk you hedge away all your returns. So you h...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

So many scams, so little time

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Some hat-tips. Roddy Boyd has been chasing a dodgy fund manager. Today he got his man: Bryan Caisse was arrested in Bogota Colombia . A l...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Hat-tip: Francine McKenna on the moral bankruptcy of the audit profession

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Francine McKenna is a persistent critic of the audit profession. This post  is a typical if egregious example When you think the big four ...
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Saturday, January 11, 2014

The Steve Madden counter example: one from the archive

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The stock in the Wolf of Wall Street ( Steve Madden Shoes ) has been a thirty bagger. It is also a challenge to the Bronte business model. ...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Taoist temples and local blindness

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Bronte Capital's office are in the tower above the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, Sydney, Australia. From there I scoure...
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Monday, January 6, 2014

Xero and the precious petals of New Zealand funds management

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I first heard of Xero from a friend, an executive management team member of a US tech giant. [Think a direct report of the CEO of Google, M...
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Friday, January 3, 2014

Do not trust Deloitte - whistleblower edition...

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I recently wrote a long letter to Deloitte about a company audited by Deloitte in which I thought there was a possibility that the accounts ...
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Saturday, December 14, 2013

The Amtrust "hit-piece": amateur hour short-selling from the once respectable Geoinvesting

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Geoinvesting is a bunch of short-sellers who I grew to respect during the great era of picking off Chinese reverse merger scams. They got se...
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Monday, December 9, 2013

Interoil: both longs and shorts look like fools

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Interoil is perhaps the most-disputed stock I have ever witnessed. The dispute is about the value of a huge claimed gas find in Papua New Gu...
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