Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love Voted Best Guitar Riff
What no Purple Haze by Hendrix Click on pic for article
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How Market Selloffs Happen
Why does investor panic suddenly take hold? Here, the fourth installment of a new Fortune series on how things spread. Twitter, the social media company that uses a bird for its corporate logo, was the canary in the coal mine. In early February, on a single day of trading, Twitter’s stock fell 24%, to $50 from…
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Being Young
One of the good things about being young is that you can trade stupidity for time – this is the strategic advantage of being young. The excess time you have remaining in your account enables you to recover from the majority of stupid things we all do when we are young. At the AIA conference…
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Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund
If only we had something left after the mining boom other than a bunch of whinging billionaires and a some big arse holes in the ground….. More here – Norway’s gargantuan sovereign wealth fund, by the numbers
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THE 10 BEST PIECES OF ADVICE FOR MAKING A FRESH START
I particularly like these two – 6. DON’T TRY TO FIT IN Too often, we try to fit in with our environment because we think it will help us move forward, but the person who embraces their differences stands out, says Sally Hogshead, author of How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value…
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Its Friday
I thought this little snippet belonged in the Its Friday section because surely being rewarded with a multi million dollar bonus for overseeing a financial planning division that committed wholesale fraud is taking the piss……isn’t it? This actually tells you all you need to know about the culture of Australian banks.
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I Am Clearly Missing Something
There is something in the rationale of people choosing hedge funds as a vehicle that I am not getting. The sales pitch must be amazingly slick or people are still captive to the false narrative that hedge funds are enrichment vehicles for someone other than the manager. Investors poured $70.9 billion into hedge funds in…
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Do Superstitious Traders Lose Money?
More than likely. The interesting thing about this piece is that whilst it is largely directed as the Chinese community and their approach to numerology and its perceived importance in decision making the same sort of irrationality applies universally. You need only pick up a copy of our local trading magazine Your Trading Edge to…
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