Global Rising Rates Repercussions China's central bank raised lending rates last Thursday for the first time in a year and a half. This ...

HK's Missing Legacy Part Deux

Sir Jack Cater's Legacy The Missing Legacy was first written in a blog of mine dated 7 February 2006 - it was on the passing of Sir Joh...

AirAsia & Tenaga Covered Warrants Fairly Valued? Covered warrants have been going great guns in HK and Singapore, and now is only starti...

The Next Big Thing For Asian Exchanges (ex-Japan) Exchange Traded Funds ETFs are investment products that hold a pool of securities and are ...

Companies That Are Truly Global In an article by Gordon Redding, the director of INSEAD's business school’s Euro-Asia Centre, he debunke...

The Devil Does Not Wear Prada Da Vinci Code Reloaded Thanks to my Baptist background, good in theology failed practical, ... the almost ridi...

Still Got Them Cowboys In West Australia Old Boys' Scratchback Mountain I thought these kind of things happened back in 70s or 80s even,...

Danger Ahead, China Real Estate Property prices in China continued to rise in the first quarter of 2006. In Beijing, prices rose by 19.2% in...

Onerous Sarbanes-Oxley To Allow Exemptions Following from my earlier blogs on Sarbanes-Oxley, now we have the SEC advisory committee with th...

Short Sellers Get Short Strawed The Ugly Child Only A Mother Could Love When the peerless 60 Minutes TV show picks your group as subject mat...

Single Stock Futures - Great Introduction This is even better that regulated short selling as it has less variables and outlay, for about th...

A Shift To Small Caps If we look at the senior employees of General Electric, Intel, Citigroup or Microsoft... they are a sober bunch. What ...

Calpers / Wilshire Associates

Dumb & Dumber Calpers is the California pension fund. Not many would care what they do, but somehow over the last few years Calpers have...