Managed Funds Are Still Rubbish
SPIVA Australian Scorecard from Trading Game Pty Ltd
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The Tide Turns
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…
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A Secondary Market For Financial Misconduct
I have copied the abstract of this paper below. In a nutshell it says that financial misconduct of advisors does have a cost. However, the cost is not as severe as you think since advisors are able to find employment at other firms after being disciplined. The downside of this for the consumer is that sooner…
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The Lone Analyst Who Said Sell Valeant When Hedge Funds Piled In
I am calling bullshit on this one – it is presented as a hero’s tale of one man standing firm with his opinion against the might of hedge funds. For those who have not followed the story Valeant is a Canadian based pharmaceutical company with a twin business strategy of charging exorbitant prices for essential…
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The 1980’s Are Coming To An End
So I am sitting in the pointy end of an old Ansett bus waiting to be ferried back to Melbourne. A few hours earlier I had been wandering around the offices of a very large and well known Sydney based broker. They had flown me up to talk about setting up a derivatives trading desk. Apparently,…
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Wheat
One of the most devilish conundrums faced by traders is what to do when an instrument they are following gives a valid signal but this signal is either at an all time high or low. Such a situation has recently occurred with wheat, which according to my system gave a valid sell signal as it…
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How Voltaire Made A Fortune Rigging The Lottery
One Le Pelletier-Desforts, Deputy Finance Minister for France, had a “brilliant” idea as to how to raise the value of existing bonds, encourage the sale of new bonds, and earn some money for the government- a trifecta. His idea was to allow bond owners to buy a lottery ticket linked to the value of their…
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