Whilst munching on my toast and vegemite and playing with my tablet (not a euphemism) I saw this neat little paragraph on news.com.au – Superannuation fund analyst Superratings’ figures show that annual returns for the median “balanced” super fund sector, which accounts for about 80 per cent of Australia’s $1.3 trillion super industry, averaged just…

I have no reason at all to show the following image other than it appealed to me. Courtesy of the always informative The Onion

With Italy showing Greece that it doesn’t have a monopoly on incompetance I thought I would redo the graphs I showed in this posting with a look back period of a one year. As you can see in terms of compound daily growth last year has been a shocker.  

With Italy showing Greece that it doesn’t have a monopoly on incompetance I thought I would redo the graphs I showed in this posting with a look back period of a one year.           As you can see in terms of compound daily growth last year has been a shocker.

I have no reason at all to show the following image other than it appealed to me.           Courtesy of the always informative The Onion

The chart below is from Merrill Lynch’s Market Analysis and it shows according to their definition the last four major bear markets including the bastard of a one we are stuck in at present. From my perspective the issue is the relevance of such charts – granted there are lost decades for buy and hold…

I have been following The Atlantics remarkable photo essay on WW2. The entire series can be found here Parts of it as you would expect are brutal in the extreme but it does show the extraordinary resilience of people in times of appalling violence. The current series is about life after the war and the image below…

The chart below is from Merrill Lynch’s Market Analysis and it shows according to their definition the last four major bear markets including the bastard of a one we are stuck in at present. From my perspective the issue is the relevance of such charts – granted there are lost decades for buy and hold…

I have been following The Atlantics remarkable photo essay on WW2. The entire series can be found here Parts of it as you would expect are brutal in the extreme but it does show the extraordinary resilience of people in times of appalling violence. The current series is about life after the war and the…