Tesla has lifted the veil on its most important undertaking: the Model 3, a $35,000 car designed to bring electric vehicles and autonomous driving to the masses. By the looks of it, and the interest it’s attracting, it just might succeed. On Thursday, Tesla raked in 134,000 reservations, each with a $1,000 deposit. And that was before…
How do businesses cope after achieving blockbuster success – click the pic below to find out.
It’s a cliché that “you can’t buy happiness”, but at the same time, financial security is among most people’s top career priorities.1 Moreover, when people are asked what would most improve the quality of their lives, the most common answer is more money.What’s going on here? Who is right? A lot of the research on…
Kviabryggja Prison in western Iceland doesn’t need walls, razor wire, or guard towers to keep the convicts inside. Alone on a wind-swept cape, the old farmhouse is bound by the frigid North Atlantic on one side and fields of snow-covered lava rock on another. To the east looms Snaefellsjokull, a dormant volcano blanketed by a…
This is beyond brilliant…..go back to a time when humans actually did something amazing. Click here
A profound failure of an industry to adapt – click the image below for the full story. For a good look at the role adaption plays in corporate life I would recommend Tim Harfords book Adapt. More here – The Wall Street Journal
Last weekend at a private client function I was conducting I had the good fortune to have conversations with a number of our Wealth Retreat graduates. I was talking with them about their experiences since attending our 5 day workshop, what they had learned, what they were doing differently and how they were leveraging the…
FOR decades looking after other people’s money has been a lucrative business. Profit margins in the asset-management industry were 39% in 2014, according to BCG, a consultancy, compared with 8% in consumer goods and 20% in pharmaceuticals. The industry’s global profits in 2014 were an estimated $102 billion, allowing firms to pay those picking stocks…
I thought I would update this. It combines data from the Barclays Hedge Fund Index and available total yearly returns for the S&P500
The ongoing saga of Valeant and its capacity to make dickheads out of apparently the hedge fund industries best and brightest intrigues me because it displays the power of the narrative over rational decision making. Consider that hedge fund managers are the highest paid individuals in the world and for their multi billion dollar salaries…
Not my philosophy but remarkable longevity in an industry where most are transient and leave after a few years if they have not made it big. As she nears 100, Irene Bergman has some advice for enjoying a long career on Wall Street: Don’t do anything stupid. Consider investment returns, the financial adviser at Stralem…
Today I wanted to share my top wealth creating insights from our premier property training event – our 5 day Wealth Retreat. You see…property money As I start preparing the curriculum for this year’s event that will be held on the Gold Coast at the end of May, I’ve been reviewing my notes from last…
Here is my idea for running a hedge fund – open the fund- take everyone’s money – buy an index ETF and then bugger off. I will be hailed a genius because I will trounce 99.9% of all other hedge fund managers. More hedge funds closed their doors in 2015 than at any time since…
