Superannuation

I was recently reading the Cooper report on superannuation in Australia and several things jumped out at me from this report. Several are quite telling in what they reflect about peoples capacity to make long term informed decisions and several about the investment industry itself. According to the Cooper Review the average superannuation balance in…

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Mythbusting

You would naturally think that financial markets were hotbeds of rationalism and hard headedness. That only ideas that actually worked would be taken seriously. If you are of this opinion you are in for nasty shock. Any funds under management you have are being managed by people who believe that the best time to buy…

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Mythbusting

You would naturally think that financial markets were hotbeds of rationalism and hard headedness. That only ideas that actually worked would be taken seriously. If you are of this opinion you are in for nasty shock. Any funds under management you have are being managed by people who believe that the best time to buy…

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Risk

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know. Donald Rumsfeld, Former US Secretary of Defense If…

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Risk

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know. Donald Rumsfeld, Former US Secretary of Defense If…

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WTF??

This is Goldmans view on the Euro – if someone can understand it can they please tell the rest of us – 1. Risk Correlations: In recent days we had become more preoccupied with potential risks to our tactical trading recommendations. We published a daily on the persistent Dollar correlations with risk assets and on…

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WTF??

This is Goldmans view on the Euro – if someone can understand it can they please tell the rest of us – 1. Risk Correlations: In recent days we had become more preoccupied with potential risks to our tactical trading recommendations. We published a daily on the persistent Dollar correlations with risk assets and on…

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