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28
Aug

Lemon Myrtle Deodorant

Military Grade I was rather surprised to receive this during the week. I’m not naturally a frequenter of “Oz Hair and Beauty” and cannot ever remember buying anything from them. My email did in fact show though that in 2019 I secured myself a “Military grade Lemon Myrtle deodorant”. It’s amusing, I suppose, because working

21
Aug

New history

Our trend Our mantra, for years, has been “who will buy the bonds”. In fact, for a variety of reasons lots of people do want to buy them, particularly at the shorter end. Two year bonds are useful, anything longer and it’s a bit dangerous. The whole bond yield journey reminds me of a podcast

06
Apr

ListedReserve Managed Fund added to FundMonitors.com Database

Managed fund research and data provider FundMonitors.com has added The ListedReserve Managed Fund to its database. FundMonitors.com produces rigorous, high-quality, trusted research on over 600 actively managed funds to assist investors, trustees and their advisors with appropriate manager selection and portfolio construction. The FundMonitors.com database enables comparison of funds based on investment strategy, manager operations,

01
Mar

ListedReserve Managed Fund added to Morningstar Fund Database

Investment research and data provider Morningstar has added The ListedReserve Managed Fund to its managed fund database. The Morningstar fund database allows investors and financial advisors to access a wide variety of investment options based on data across investment type, operations, performance, and portfolio data points, all while scaling across regions, strategies, and markets. Investors

22
Feb

ListedReserve partners with Coin Metrics

ListedReserve has partnered with Coin Metrics for the provision of transparent and independent digital asset pricing for their flagship Managed Fund. The partnership will provide an empirically tested pricing methodology that is robust to outliers and market manipulation, to ensure the integrity of the unit pricing of ListedReserve’s product offerings. In using the Coin Metrics

05
Nov

Billionaire

Zuckaverse The reaction to Facebook’s rebrand to Meta was somewhat surprising. So many people apparently horrified that some digital panopticon might be created in which an evil billionaire megalomaniac controls the world. Where has everyone been? This already happened 10 years ago. Facebook has nearly two billion daily users and three billion per month. That

29
Oct

Safe as houses

You and your houses The bore-athon that is the discussion about house prices continues unabated in the Australian press and at BBQs across the country. Everyone with a house expressing their smug surprise, everyone without their utter despondency. It would be fair to say prices have done well in the last five years, particularly recently.

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