Newspapers began life in Europe in the early 1600s. Although centuries before the printing press, an idea of a daily paper circulated in Rome, and…
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Around the world, who are the largest asset owners? Generally, the large ones are Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds, OCIOs (Outsourced Chief Investment Office), University…
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A few threads for macro context: Global Wealth: Thread Pension Assets/ Australia: Thread Top 10 stock exchanges: Thread Sovereign Wealth Funds: Thread Sustainable Development Goals: Thread 1…
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“Oil is a natural resource formed by the decay of organic matter over millions of years. And like many other natural resources, oil cannot be…
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Political leaders have so frequently cried wolf over budgetary spending that voters are skeptical about talk of budgetary crises. This is unfortunate, since deficits…
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How much energy does the world consume? “We are really, when you count performance and tabulate behaviour, not supercomputers but a lot like locusts,…
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Berkshire Hathaway is in an interesting business. Of owning, investing, operating companies. One can look at it as a really large PE fund working with…
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News gets old quickly. And yearly wraps can go out of fashion even as January draws to close. But sharing two such links here –…
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I played tennis for the first time on the first of May of last year. A day special in a few other ways too. As…
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I came across a chart today about R&D spends by different companies (the chart is from howmuch.net and is shared at the end of this…
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