Ever So Calm
This is the VIX over the past few years – as you can see the market seems to have calmed right down to historically low levels.
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There appears to be a growing realisation that fund managers of all ilk are simply not delivering the returns they are being paid for. In fact the evidence seems to indicate that the majority of managers (>95%) are actually a drag on the performance of any given fund. Whilst, we tend to look as this…
DetailsFact Of The Day – Metal Bands Per 100,000 People
This nifty little graphic shows the number of heavy metal bands per 100,000 people. As you can see Sub-Saharan Africa is a cultural desert for heavy metal (pardon the pun) Whereas, Scandinavia particularly Finland is bonkers for metal.
Twitscape
Just got bounced this little exchange
Deceptive Headline Of The Year…..So Far
Large Hedge Funds Fared Well in 2011 Apparently they didn’t – their managers did. I have written about this disconnect before, here and here There is a remarkable and somewhat unsavoury difference between what the people who run hedge funds make and what the people who invest in hedge funds make. As an example consider…
DetailsA Sign Of Life
At last some vague sign of life – the marked bars represent 52 day highs so at least the market has made a modestly pathetic attempt at making new highs. As opposed to other world markets that have been making successively new highs in the past few months.
A Tale Of Two Brains
I am currently reading the excellent Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain which delves into the nature of consciousness and free will. Like all good cross over science books it can be read by the lay person without much difficulty. Whilst follow up on a chapter on split brain surgery I…
DetailsIts Friday
A bit slow with updates this week since I have been baby sitting the new mentorees. For some reason I find this hilarious
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