Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Whopping pork pies. If my Cypriot dad wanted to identify someone as “loose with the truth,” he would call him a Pattihari - Pattiha being the word for watermelon in the Greek-Cypriot dialect. The far from flattering moniker would invariably be accompanied by a gesture where my father would hold...
Is this the digital worlds last frontier? "We are all now connected by the internet, like neurons in a giant brain" –Stephen Hawking Looking at a map depicting global internet...
Covid 19’s impact on the Asia Pacific office market has been that buoyant demand leading into the pandemic was quickly stymied as corporate occupiers sought to limit cost...
Business and art go together like... Well, these days, the proverbial horse and carriage ndy Warhol, a man who knew whereof he spoke, once observed, “Making money is art and...
Shopping centres and offices are the surprise front-runners in the REIT scene. In the spring edition of The Property Chronicle, I ventured to suggest that, while there is...
It was a surprise to see an ex-pupil on Interpol’s Most Wanted list. I suppose I had assumed that life at a fairly decent sort of school in a fairly decent sort of place would...
When you don’t want to pay top dollar, consider sipping the fruit of your favoured vineyards’ less established plants. We’re back on vaguely familiar territory, I’m afraid (I...
The colonists were at first demanding only equal rights with British citizens, until the events of April 1775. In 1837, the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Cryptocurrency is something of a fairy tale, but the real story is one of central banks seeking financial repression by any means possible. Arguably, the best background reading...
By ignoring the wisdom of those with more experience, we end up repeatedly revisiting the same issues. “History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short...