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UBS On The Front Line Of The 'Tax Wars'
I make my report from under a my desk, via satelite phone, risking my very life to bring you the latest from war torn Switzerland. We are hearing from the troops that a captured ex-banker has been interogated by the US tax special forces known as the 'IRS' and after a brave few minutes of... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Yanked By The Shorts
Right now is a great time to be a pessimist about the markets. There are so many factors helping you out it is unbelievable. The oil price, instability in the middle east, jobless figures, housing markets etc etc. But the best comments I have seen from a pessimist is Albert Edwards, strategist at... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

Oil And The 'Big Rollover'
We picked up an interesting tid bit at marketwatch.com today: "SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- TrimTabs Investment Research, which tracks asset flows into exchange-traded and other funds, said Thursday oil speculation risked tipping the world economy into financial ruin. TrimTabs backed up its... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Bear Stearn Bankers Arrested...We told you so..
"We have said it before on this blog, the regulators are getting tough and are probably being backed by a political will to catch the big guys. Someone's scalp will be on the mantle of an ambitious politician soon, we are sure of it". So we said in this blog back in October 07 and the regulators... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

AB Cap - Death By a Thousand Cuts
Absolute Capital was once a high flying hedge fund business headed by a flambouyant CEO in the form of Florian Homm. The company was worth close to $400mn and it seemed all was rosey. It all started to come apart after a seemingly petty argument between the company and Mr Homm. Homm resigned... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

The IRS Strikes Back - UBS Under The Kosh
Amendment to business plan: NO AMERICAN CLIENTS. Don't get me wrong, as I have said before, I love our American cousins. Any nation that can put up with the nanny state like they do and still smile and wave the flag is OK by me. Their TV is great, their movie stars gorgeous (Sorry Megan Fox, I... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

Brokers Fight Club
A day at the office for a trader can be a roller coaster ride of highs and lows. You just called the Dow for +100 points, then threw it all away on Oil. Yahoo and Microsoft pair trade not going your way? Or have you spent the day whipping the Hang Seng? Whatever your day has been like it is... Read more...
Published 1 month ago

Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated
Regulators and doom merchants are shedding a tear today as the HF Global Hedge Fund Index is reported to have risen by 1.4% in May. Add this to the 1.2% in April and the industry is only 0.2% behind the game for 2008. Easing of some volatility has helped the industry recover and the arb funds... Read more...
Published 1 month ago

Market Exposure Via ETFs
Looking to trade hot markets but wondering how to do it outside of futures? More times than not the hot, and cold, markets will be indicated by exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that follow stocks from a particular country. 51 ETFs now track stock markets from specific countries giving a good... Read more...
Published 1 month ago

Flowers In Their Hair?
It has always been an uneasy alliance between commerce and the environmental community, but it seems, even in this time of hightened awareness and high oil prices, that there has been a decline in investments in clean technology. According to research group New Energy Finance, private equity... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Swiss Car-Haters? Harsh but.....
I have a confession, and living in Switzerland it can be an obsession that does not go down well with the locals. Yes, I am afraid to say.... I am a car freak. OK, I have said it now...I feel much better, but I can feel my residents permit being wrenched from my grasp. You see Switzerland is not... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Hedge Funds Heroes?
In an amazing turn around hedge funds are now being touted as the possible 'heroes' of the market as reported by the FT. Having been pilloried by the regulators before the credit crunch for earning too much money and being 'secretive' to being blamed for their 'slap dash' approach to leverage it... Read more...
Published 2 months ago