What the Film ‘The Big Short’ Teaches Us about Value Investing
Spoiler Alert - Read this article after watching the movie. It’s reasonable to wonder what a movie about the housing…
9 years ago
Economics & Markets
Mellon on the Markets
I was going to write this piece in Brussels, but decided against going – and so I write from Hamburg.…
9 years ago
Lifetime ISA (LISA) – What’s Not to Like?
While the central bank is hurting savers in a bid to turn them into heavy spenders, the government is attempting…
9 years ago
Postcard from Tirana
So, Swen, ever well intentioned, sends me down here to check out the Albanian stock market and I turn up…
9 years ago
European Banks: Please Assemble at the Muster Station
As seen in the latest issue of Master Investor Magazine. We really do hate to interrupt your cruise. But there’s…
9 years ago
Ukrainian Blues
The last time I was in Ukraine with the World Bank (February 2012) I had my fifteen seconds of fame…
9 years ago
The Budget Part II
Our world seems to be speeding up and getting less coherent. Probably it was always incoherent, but we were once…
9 years ago
Budget Spring 2016 – You Won’t Need Sugar to Sweeten This Pill
The Chancellor appeared to be in a buoyant mood delivering his budget speech on Wednesday even though he noted that…
9 years ago
Front-Running the ECB
Less than one week after the ECB signalled it would start purchasing investment-grade corporate bonds, bond issues are already going…
9 years ago
We need to talk about George
Albion Cathedral School, 16 March 2016 Dear Parent, We regret that George’s behaviour has been a cause for…
9 years ago