What would you call your asset management business if you were launching one? I would call mine Gosling Asset Management, which I could shorten to GAM, but then again a very good group called GAM was already in existence long before upstarts like me tried...
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the start of a two-decade bull run in emerging European equities. The twin forces of a desire for democracy and basic living standards helped bring down the symbol of Communist repression.
The output gap sounds like one of those obtuse concepts bandied about by professional economists to confuse the hell out of ordinary folk.
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
Now, who would have thought it? After being regarded as second rate citizens by many hedge funds leading up to and after the crunch, retail investors now hold the main remaining key to accessing some of the world's most sought-after managers.