Richard Beddard
Richard Beddard
| Thu, 24/05/2012 - 10:41

Revenue or cash flow, it’s all good
By including leases in the definition of ‘capital’, suddenly Next’s accounts make sense. Over the last decade the company has performed astonishingly well earning a median return on capital of 15%, dropping only to 13% during 2009, a year many retailers, indeed businessmen, would like to forget:

Peter Temple
Peter Temple | Tue, 22/05/2012 - 16:53

It is a little-known fact that the iShares powerhouse, a big player in the now well-established market for exchange traded funds, actually began life as a joint venture between US bank Wells Fargo and the Japanese investment house Nikko.

Peter Temple
Peter Temple | Thu, 10/05/2012 - 15:11

"Suffering as defensiveness to kick in" is about the best description that can be applied to the ETF Portfolio right now. In the past month, gold has languished, the euro has been weak, and emerging markets have continued to be under a cloud. Since these are the main areas in which the portfolio is invested, its performance has been, to say the least, pretty second-rate.

The Colonel
The Colonel | Wed, 02/05/2012 - 17:41

HQ: 2 May

I have been feeling cooped up. The rain of the past fortnight has felt relentless. Yes, I have managed occasionally to sally forth with the dogs for a breath of fresh air. But otherwise, I have been confined to barracks, perusing the papers, feeling increasingly grumpy about the state of the world - and, I admit, finding it something of a strain to spend virtually all my waking hours with no company except that of the Old Girl.

Peter Temple
Peter Temple | Wed, 02/05/2012 - 12:38

Call me a dinosaur if you like but I really can't be bothered to set up a Facebook account. As for Twitter... don't get me started. So the news that Facebook's IPO is coming along in a couple of weeks leaves me as cold as a pickled egg.

The Colonel
The Colonel | Fri, 27/04/2012 - 16:41

HQ: 26 April

The Memsahib is currently purring like a Cheshire cat, as she has just received her invitation to the Chelsea Flower Show early next month. It arrived whilst I was venting my spleen on the ridiculous Leveson Enquiry. I am bored to tears with the bleating of Tom Watson MP and Chris Bryant MP. I'm fed up with all the jealous hypocrisy from the 'hacks' who have been on this relentless quest to bury the Murdochs; as if butter wouldn't melt in their mouths.