Aston Martin Vantage GT3
I have to admit that the interior has improved. When I first looked at them they had an interior that appeared to be straight out of a Ford Modeo shitbox.
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The Great Superannuation Exodus
According to the Sydney Morning Herald there has been an exodus of funds from large superannuation funds into self managed funds. The number of people with DIY super funds has grown by more than 30 per cent during the past five years to more than 1 million, collectively worth, in December last year, a whopping $568 billion.…
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YTD Performance
I posted the following graphic in the Charts of Interest. However, I feel it deserves a more expanded examination. In the years following the GFC the domestic market has lagged markedly behind other world markets. The shock of the GFC has had a profound impact upon the psyche of investors – that combined with a rampant…
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Your Brain Is Primed To Reach False Conclusions
Helena Matute, a psychologist at Deusto University in Bilbao, Spain, and her colleagues enlisted 147 college students to take part in a computer-based task in which they each played a doctor who specializes in a fictitious rare disease and assessed whether new medications could cure it. In phase one of the study, the student volunteers…
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What Is This Telling Me…Sweet FA
I snipped the graphic below from Bespoke the folks who produce countless and mostly points charts on the market. It compares the percentage change in the S&P500 to date with the first six months of 2014. The chart above attempts to draw a comparison between the initial portion of this year and the same period last…
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A History Lesson
I am a history buff – the thing that fascinates me about history is that you can see the same patterns of behaviour repeated on a macro and micro scale over and over again. As an example I ran into a past member of our mentor program sometime ago at the opera and we had…
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Fake Hedge Fund Manager Fakes Death Using Fake Assistant
He never made real investments with funds, instead using the money for personal use, authorities said. To keep his companies going, he issued false earnings statements. “By pretending to be a successful hedge-fund manager, Malik conned investors into bankrolling his lavish lifestyle,” Andrew M. Calamari, director of the SEC’s New York Regional Office, said at…
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