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2011.04.26 17:43:59 Post your comments, questions and more on Facebook, straight from your iPad Wealth manager iPad app. You can also access the Resource section with a wealth of articles on how to use the app in many different scenarios to discover how to maximize your personal wealth. All of this is applicable to consumers...... Read more...
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2011.04.13 16:29:39 The Chinese economy has been a strange animal altogether for the past decade. As Alan Greenspan pointed out, cheap manufacturing in the early 2000's has put a deflationary pressure on the rest of the world, resulting in central banks targeting wrongly low interest rates. This all resulted in what we...... Read more...
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2011.01.13 18:55:34 You might have been wondering what we have been doing during the festive season, now you know, we have been working on bringing our Wealth Manager to the iPad! iPad users were until now unable to enjoy the use of ProsperityPersonal’s flagship Wealth Manager, now you can. Use your iPad to look for the...... Read more...
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2010.11.05 16:44:58 The famous sayings 'Money attracts Money' and 'the rich get richer' will be more true than ever for the next few years. The Fed decided to pump money in the system by buying $600 billion of bonds, hence flolding the system with cash. Will you see that cash? Of course not. The Fed wants to make lending...... Read more...
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2010.10.25 22:47:14 Apple might have done a good thing to software: it promotes paid apps. Like it did for music, the software business is being revolutionized by Apple, and maybe it is a good thing. GNU and GPL (free software licenses) are here to stay, but the world got confused with what should and what should not be...... Read more...
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2010.10.15 18:41:32 They might come down very soon. The current mood on the stock markets is purely driven by expectations of quantitative easing. This means that everybody expects even more cheap money and in huge quantities. Loads to cheer for, in the short term. Long term, it is not good news, inflation, debt repayments,...... Read more...
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2010.10.07 17:56:01 The New York Fed just made a loss of $180 million. Normal you would say, with the bail-out package they put together, they should have expected losses, at least on part of the debt they put on their books. The loss came from the debt owed by Hilton - not Paris Hilton, the hotel chain. While Paris is flirting...... Read more...
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2010.09.22 16:50:27 There they go again - AIG and Prudential are in talks about AIG's two Japanese life insurance companies, which Prudential would buy. I am amazed that Prudential's CEO addressed both Prudential's and AIA's workforce in Singapore and Hong Kong, before calling off the deal and then restart the talks....... Read more...
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2010.08.25 14:21:53 Financial crises related to balance sheet problems in banks take years to resolve, and now we start to realize that. The liquidity run we experienced in 2009 is now far behind us. The rollercoaster is rocking the markets, from the ghosts of sovereign default to foreclosures, the impulse response has...... Read more...
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2010.08.14 16:36:29 The first and second quarter of 2010 could be seen as having generated a mixed response, however, if we put it in perspective with last year's performance, I think 2010 could have performed much worse. We are now below the S&P500 value on January 4th, but not too far below. The market started well, but...... Read more...
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2010.07.26 10:26:07 Who killed James Bond? Private Equity did. The answer is not obvious, but if you read my blog post about how Private Equity destroys companies by loading them with debt, you already have a clue. MGM studios is in deep trouble, with a debt pile of about $4bn, and the cash flow generated from DVD sales keeps...... Read more...
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2010.07.18 16:38:45 Should investors buy bank shares or should they rather avoid bank stocks? Personally, I avoid investing in banks, not because I believe the share prices are overvalued, but because I have no visibility on what is going on within the bank. This being said, bank shares can be a good investment, as it was...... Read more...
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2010.07.03 02:30:05 Hernando de Soto famously pointed out that a key difference between developed countries and developing countries was the possibility to pledge land title or real estate as a collateral to gain access to credit. Financing, as we know, is the blood of the economy. If the economy is powered by the muscle...... Read more...
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2010.06.26 15:03:52 Finally, there it is, the finance bill has been agreed upon, but what do I do with my portfolio? The answer is not obvious, unfortunately. The finalized bill takes away the uncertainty of surprises, a good thing for markets. Uncertainty is always traded at a discount, so we can expect a very short term...... Read more...
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2010.06.20 17:31:24 China is to finally resume its currency appreciation compared to the US dollar. Big news indeed, it's been a while since we expected this to happen. The pressure from foreign governments was building up, but in the end it probably makes most sense for the Chinese economy. Internal inflation is at an all...... Read more...
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2010.06.18 17:19:40 Companies listed on the S&P 500 have a record pile of cash on hand, and everybody wonders what they will do with it. Looking at the unemployment rate figures in the US, it does not look like the companies spend the cash on creating jobs. Instead, those companies are looking at two possibilities: First,...... Read more...
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2010.06.15 10:24:55 US seeks $ 20bn BP pay-out is the title in the FT today. Did you ever wonder if BP can afford this? You would expect a large multi-national in the Oil & Gas industry to be able to pay for this, but, did you check BP's financial statements? BP has about $ 6bn in cash, did you know that? Of course BP has...... Read more...
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2010.06.09 14:29:25 Greece with its empty coffers, Hungary with its threat of having to restructure its debt, and the US with its ever lasting Great Recession are all candidates for being the culprit of rocking the boat. On the surface, China is the big winner with a strong growth. Its neighbours enjoy economic growth thanks...... Read more...
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2010.06.05 18:12:15 The latest report of job creation in the US showed 431,000 new jobs, from which 411,000 are temporary government jobs for the census. Well, well, well, the cat is finally out of the bag. The stock market immediately punished this bad news, but frankly speaking, many were expecting this. Why? Because the...... Read more...
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2010.05.24 22:47:35 Betting against the Sterling is back in vogue as speculation reaches record levels after the UK general elections. Positioning data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, often used as a proxy for hedge fund activity, showed that speculators had extended their bets against sterling from 72,188 contracts...... Read more...
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