This week’s links include the sad news regarding the coming end of Webb-site, Horizon Kinetics’ 2024 annual review, the FT on Indonesia’s control of the nickel market, Carlyle’s tender offer to acquire all of Kaonavi, Nikkei Asia on Unicharm’s efforts to close the gap with P&G in global market share for children’s disposable diapers, and […]
Category: Readings
Readings For The Week (8/2)
This week’s links include The Economist on the fast-growing global enterprise that is “Scam Inc,” Kitco Mining’s conversation with Grant Williams, Merlin Sheldrake and David Abram’s exploration of the more-than-human web of life, World Gold Council’s gold demand trends for Q4 & FY24, and a wide-ranging interview with Graham Duncan. The Economist: The vast and […]
Readings For The Week (1/2)
This week’s links include Kennox’s founders on finding value in an upside-down world, a rare and in-depth interview with TSMC’s Morris Chang, Marcus Wallenberg on leadership, engaged ownership and landsgagneliga, Sprott’s uranium market outlook for 2025, “The Big Short” investors on lessons from the 2008 crash & today’s market, and Jack Schwager on the lessons […]
Readings For The Week (25/1)
This week’s links include Bronte Capital’s December 2024 newsletter for the Amalthea Fund, Dan Rupp of Parkway Capital on starting an Asia fund in an era of US preeminence, Li Lu on global value investing in our era, a wide-ranging podcast interview with Django Davidson of Hosking Partners, the latest from Oasis Management’s ongoing engagement […]
OAM’s 2024 Letter
Desmond Kinch’s latest annual shareholder letter for Overseas Asset Management’s Asian Recovery Fund is out and he continues to make a compelling case for investing in Asian equities. You are much better off reading his letter in its entirety as he provides significantly more data, context and nuance, but a few of my takeaways are […]
Will Thorndike (RV Capital Annual Gathering)
Will Thorndike, a private investor and author of “The Outsiders,” was recently interviewed by Rob Vinall at the RV Capital 2025 Annual Gathering. He talked about his career path, some of the key concepts and insights from the book, his appreciation for how they can also be applied to more cyclical businesses and signals for […]
Readings For The Week (18/1)
This week’s links include the announcement of a US$1mn prize for deciphering the Harappan script, a transcript of BoJ deputy governor Ryozo Himono’s recent speech on Japan’s economic and monetary policy, Palliser Capital’s objections to the proposed takeover of Great Eastern by OCBC, Nathan Anderson’s letter announcing the disbanding of Hindenburg Research, a recent research […]
Readings For The Week (12/1)
Happy new year to everyone and best wishes for 2025! This week’s links include a conversation with Alok Sama that draws from his recently published book “The Money Trap,” an underappreciated aspect of Manmohan Singh’s legacy, some interesting recent articles on Japan’s ever-tightening labour market, Hosking Partners on the state of ESG heading into 2025, […]
Readings For The Week (21/12)
Last post of 2024 – it has been a long year, so we are looking forward to some time off exploring Malaysia! Happy holidays to everyone and best wishes for the new year! This week’s links include Russell Napier on the consequences of economic nationalism, reflections from James Hay on the Pangolin Fund turning 20 […]
Readings For The Week (8/12)
Happy weekend! First up, some minor housekeeping. A few people have pointed out that the email sign up button on this blog wasn’t working. Apologies, I have now fixed the issue. The blog itself is probably due for an upgrade as it is starting to look quite dated. I hope to do that sometime next […]