Archive for September, 2006

Trade for free at Zecco?

Monday, September 25th, 2006

My wishlist for Zecco. Post also includes comments by Alfredo Gutierrez from Zecco on the features of the yet-to-be-officially-released trading platform.

Swensen Tops Harvard Again

Monday, September 25th, 2006

According to Bloomberg, David Swensen, the investment chief of Yale University’s $18 billion endowment fund and author of the book “Unconventional Success”, has outperformed Harvard’s investment returns in fiscal year 2006, posting a 22.9 percent return on gains from hedge funds and stocks outside the U.S. He has also outpaced the S&P 500 index that […]

The U.S. Public Debt

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

There have been many stories written about the huge public debt of the U.S. Newbie investors in Singapore are sometimes ill-advised by the so-called “more experienced” investors to completely avoid investing in the U.S. for this reason, much to the detriment of the portfolio’s diversification.
To be sure, the public debt of the U.S. is huge […]