It looks like the moment has finally arrived. The front page of yesterday’s Australian Financial Review was entitled “Resources Boom Falls to Earth”.
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Problems back home
Author Archives: David Buckland
Getting the best out of the team
After 27 seasons at the helm of Manchester United Football Club, Sir Alex Ferguson has announced his retirement. Winning thirteen Premier League titles, five FA Cups and 2 UEFA Champions League titles in the ‘up-this-year, out-the-next’ world of professional sport is an extraordinary result.
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Performance to 30 April 2013
The Montgomery [Private] Fund and The Montgomery Fund – performance to 30 April 2013.
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Peripheral Europe Getting Ugly
Tonight should see the European Central Bank’s Governing Council cut its benchmark rate to a record low 0.5 per cent.
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China’s power consumption growth – indicative of slower GDP growth?
It has always amused us that China, with 1.34 billion people (19 per cent of the world’s population of 7 billion) and with an economy of US$8.5 trillion (12 per cent of the world’s GDP of US$70 trillion), can produce their GDP growth rate within days of the quarter end.
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