Invest
Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Search in posts
Search in pages
22
Oct

An offer you can’t refuse

ETF A short comment on the ETF. It went live and was successful with the second highest volume of any ETF launch ever. The team at Arcane Research declared it the most successful ETF launch ever because it had the highest “natural volume”. Meaning, if you strip out the giant pre-planned investor that normally supports

08
Oct

Mint the coin

Mint The Coin The annual debt ceiling dance is well underway in the US. It is nonsense as usual because there is zero chance that America can ever default. All their debt is denominated in dollars and they can create as many of them as they wish. Still, it’s more fun that talking about Covid,

01
Oct

Bad week gone good

China ban #46 Bitcoin fell sharply on Friday after China announced its latest ban on cryptocurrency. While I am certain they mean business, the issue for China is they have announced a new ban every year since 2013. The headline above is from the first ban that year which caused bitcoin to “plunge more than

24
Sep

We are corrupt; please follow the rules

Gensler We were treated to an interview in the Washington Post this week with SEC head Gary Gensler. He had plenty to say but reserved particular ire for stablecoins, which he likened to poker chips. The driving force behind his intervention was likely the recent Coinbase proposal for a USD stablecoin that would have attracted

17
Sep

Pork on your fork

Doublespeak One of the great examples of political spin was delivered last week by the US Director of the National Economic Council, Brian Deese. Americans are complaining about rising prices, with food inflation well into double figures. Brian was unleashed on the nation to calm nerves and set the record straight. He explained to Americans

10
Sep

Project Dunbar

El Salvador goes live Bitcoin became legal tender in El Salvador on Tuesday. It was not met with universal approval locally and you can understand why, a lot of people struggle with technology, and this really is a quantum leap for some of them. I cannot emphasise enough how important it is for the IMF

03
Sep

Simple is best

Investment strategy As a new fund manager (not yet four years old), it is a learning curve. Perhaps the most surprising thing we have encountered across the industry is the amount of time that goes into number crunching and comparison to benchmarks and “consensus views”. Consensus seems to be an important thing that people look

20
Aug

Book Week

It’s the future you see Book week this week. Given the amount of airtime being given to virtual worlds and what happens as the world goes increasingly digital, I thought it might be fun to have a look at the best books on this very topic. Read them and make your own mind up (maybe not the

13
Aug

Dear Hacker……

IT Skill The pandemic has revealed something that we knew but didn’t fully appreciate. The general level of IT skill in the workforce is appalling. Technology moves fast but almost nobody moves with it, so very quickly we are left behind. One of the first programs I ever used when I got a job was Microsoft Excel.

06
Aug

Rotten Apple

Denominator Here’s an idea for you. The NAB has published house price data showing an annual increase of 21.6%. That’s 1.6% per month. The average price of a residential property in New South Wales is now $1m (higher in Sydney). Property prices are increasing at about $16,000 per month. The average salary in NSW is