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July 2013

UFC Fighters Get Pummeled for a Living, and the Pay Stinks

UFC Fighters Get Pummeled for a Living, and the Pay Stinks By Keenan Mayo on July 03, 2013 http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-03/ufc-fighters-get-pummeled-for-a-living-and-the-pay-stinks Obscurity […]

Coming Up with the Cash, Condo and Cows for that China Wedding

There’s no word of this causing any mass incidents yet, but a map illustrating how China’s rising real estate prices […]

Survey: Key African Investment Messages are Not Being Heard

A survey on African investment by my former employer.  Survey of U.S. Institutional Investors with assets under management exceeding $1 […]

Taking Seniority: Looking to Bank Loans in Uncertain Markets

By Elizabeth (Beth) MacLean , From Pimco website, ​ Bank loans are senior secured loans to non-investment-grade corporations. They are […]

The fastest way to triple your money is…housing?

For the past several years single-family housing investors have been playing the buy and hold game. Strong rental demand and […]

Men: they just don’t listen

  Jun 6th 2013, 11:03 by Buttonwood WHEN directors of a company buy or sell shares, other investors often see this […]

Dambisa Moyo’s take on Frontier Markets

I just read a great interview by Jonathan Barnes of the CFA Institute Magazine, in which he interviews economist Dambisa […]

Ground Zero in Crypto-Commerce

There were no cubicles, no executive suites, and no visible hierarchies of power. It was just a large open room […]

Incorporating Right-Brain Thinking into your Investment Process

By Tim Heitman, From Investing501, The following article is the first part of a series designed to help investors develop […]

Custom-Made Retirement

By Dennis Miller You may have heard the popular legend about Eskimo tribes sending the elderly off to die at […]