A 2017 report by market research firm New World Wealth concluded that a record 82,000 millionaires moved to a new country in 2016, up 26% from 62,000 in 2015. The estimate is that approximately 100,000 millionaires will move country each year by 2018. A millionaire in...
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Is the next resources boom starting?
Below is a chart we presented at our most recent Annual General Meeting depicting the S&P/ASX 200 Resources Index over a sixteen-year period. Within this extended period, we see a resource ‘boom’, the Global Financial Crisis and subsequently the resources ‘bust’....
Winners If The Australian Dollar Falls
Currency and interest rates are currently playing a large role in the world economy, which should be no surprise because we are covering new ground in terms of record low rates and subsequent currency fluctuations. At present, 40 per cent of the developed world’s...
Rio Tinto & Woodside Petroleum: Has the trend changed?
Following Karl Siegling’s article in the May 2016 edition of Cuffelinks titled “Commodities: Has the trend changed?” we will look in detail at two of our current commodity positions – a short position in Rio Tinto (RIO) and a short position in Woodside Petroleum...
Commodities: Has the trend changed?
This article was originally written by Karl Siegling for Cuffelinks. On the 22 March 2016, Mr Richard Elman, Founder and Chairman of the Noble Group Limited was quoted on Bloomberg as saying: "We all know that commodities are cyclical, but predicting when that turning...
An Investment Approach to Assessing Management
Quite clearly good management is important, but what are the attributes of good management?