A Tale Of Two Markets
If you look at the performance of the broader Australian market since the GFC you see a market that has relative to other world markets been modest in its gains. The chart below looks at the performance of the S&P/ASX 200 against a variety of other markets. The lack of energy in the broader index…
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Returns Comparison
With the majority of world markets running hot I thought it would be interesting to compare last years returns for a handful of markets with their returns YTD. In the chart below I have looked at the value of $1 invested in each market for the 2014 calendar year and for the calendar YTD. This…
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In Praise of Short Sellers
In November, 2013, Whitney Tilson, who runs a small hedge fund called Kase Capital Management, gave a presentation to a group of money managers. Tilson’s talk was about a flooring company called Lumber Liquidators. In the previous two years, its profits had more than doubled and its stock had risen sevenfold. But Tilson made a…
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