December 16, 2019Investing How Hedge Funds Performed in the 2010s While putting together reviews of the past decade, I have looked at how emerging markets have performed vs developed markets, how bonds […]
December 10, 2019Charts A Lost Decade For Emerging Markets (and Small Caps, and …?) I recently discovered that SeekingAlpha has made it even easier to embed charts into articles and blog posts thanks to an integration […]
December 3, 2019Video 2019: The Year Private Investing Started Losing Its Shine One trend I have disliked this decade is the relative increase in private equity and investors chasing them. As I describe in […]
November 18, 2019Charts Using the Singapore Dollar as a “Global Currency” Proxy Today’s chart addresses a question I often get “how do I diversify away from a strong dollar, given that the euro, yen, […]
October 30, 2019Web finds 2019 Leveraged Buyout Multiples Nearly Double 2001 Levels Thanks to this tweet from Meb Faber for sharing the below chart of multiples paid by private equity firms for leveraged buyouts […]
October 28, 2019Events Trading Indian Single Stocks from Offshore: 12 Dec Webinar with SGX India has recently surpassed China as the fastest growing large economy in the world, and is expected to surpass China in population […]
September 12, 2019September 11, 2019Charts Expected Return of Stocks and Bonds in One Simple Chart One of the most frequently asked questions I am sent is “what is the rate of return I should expect when I […]
September 10, 2019September 9, 2019Wealth Management US Tax Structures for Hong Kong Residents My latest article in STEP HK’s August Newsletter is on “US Tax Structures for Hong Kong Residents“. Unlike with Mainland China, the […]
August 26, 2019August 23, 2019Charts Globally Diversified Domestic Stocks One reason I hear some investors are uninterested in buying foreign-listed stocks is that they believe the foreign revenues of some of […]
August 23, 2019Web finds When New York Real Estate Lost 50% In recent memory, the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 is what most of us might think of as the last time when […]