The recent trials and tribulations surrounding alternative property group Brandeaux should not come as a great surprise.
What is it with animal similes and investors? Bulls, bears and now feral hogs, soon to be followed no doubt by lemmings and gold-plated cliff edges.
Japan has always been a tricky subject for a self-confessed contrarian. It is a prime example of the columnist's conundrum, a poorly diagnosed but utterly chronic condition whereby newspaper columnists, CIOs and cross asset class strategists feel the...
As I survey the market, and especially fund flows, Roman poet Horace's famous maxim springs to mind - "if possible honesty, if not, somehow make money".