One of the investment world’s great heroes is David Swensen, the man who has managed Yale University’s endowment money since 1987. What makes him a hero? The fact that in all the years since he …
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Until the 1990s, few retail investors paid much attention to emerging markets. That they now do is largely down to Mark Mobius. The “pied piper” of the sector, as South Africa’s Sunday Times dubbed him, …
The Sentinel is reporting that in Massachusetts, “State Targeting Abusive Lenders”: “The state Division of Banks is cracking down this month on what it sees as abusive business practices by mortgage lenders and brokers. “The …
This feature is part of our FREE daily Money Morning email. If you’d like to sign up, please click here: sign up for Money Morning. The oil price just keeps ticking down. Oil fell back …
A momentous week given that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has made a new all-time high – a matter of considerable significance but which seems to fly in the face of what we consider to …
As a fund manager with 11 years of experience at JP Morgan, Scotsman Jim Campbell and co-manager, Italian Francesco Conte of the JP Morgan European Fledgling Investment Trust,“have been in place long enough to have …
Why should you care that booking a table at a top Tokyo restaurant is so difficult, asks Stephen Womack in The Mail on Sunday, or that getting your hands on opera tickets there is nigh …
When famous investors are asked to name books that all stockmarket enthusiasts ought to read, they invariably highlight Edwin Lefevre’s Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (John Wiley & Sons). A fictionalised account of the trading …
At the end of the 1980s, the apparent ascendancy of the Japanese and German economies was one of the more astonishing developments of the modern era. The defeated powers of World War II had literally …