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October 13, 2014 Santiago, Chile A man in a uniform dashes up to you with a badge pinned to his chest and says “that man over there is a thief! Quick, help me get him!” What do you do? You would probably run and tackle the guy down, right? To
October 13, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] “When sorrows come,” wrote Shakespeare, “they come not single spies, but in battalions.” True. And Jeremy Warner for the Daily Telegraph identifies ten such sorrows in his ‘ten biggest threats to the
October 10, 2014 Santiago, Chile I just got off a two-hour conference call with the board of directors of our agricultural investment company. I’m fortunate that our board is comprised of some incredibly smart people, including a senior executive at one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world,
October 9, 2014 Santiago, Chile The Bank of Korea — South Korea’s central bank — released data that says South Korean domestic deposits have reached 16.19 billion Chinese renminbi in July this year, which is a 55-fold increase from the same period last year when renminbi deposits accounted for only
October 8, 2014 Santiago, Chile In 1863, the United States of America was in the midst of a devastating civil war. Thousands of people had just lost their lives at Gettysburg, and Sherman was preparing for his march to the sea, laying waste to Atlanta in the process. New York
October 7, 2014 Santiago, Chile Now that European Union countries are required by law to keep tabs on illegal activities as part of their economic indicators, we decided to look at some select European countries more closely. The new accounting rules mandated by the EU’s statistics office, Eurostat, include revenue
October 7, 2014 Santiago, Chile Chris Rose was dying from terminal heart disease. He didn’t have long, and before he passed, he wanted to make sure that his 18-month old son received his British passport. When he went to pay the application fee at the British consulate in Hong Kong
October 6, 2014 London, England [Editor’s Note: Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in the UK and frequent Sovereign Man contributor, is filling in for Simon today.] For the benefit of anyone living under a rock these past weeks, Bill Gross, the so-called “Bond King” and manager
October 3, 2014 Santiago, Chile Some of our team members at Sovereign Man are on the ground in Hong Kong and are witnessing first-hand the turmoil that’s been going on there for the past two weeks. It all started on September 22 with grievances over the decision from the Chinese
October 2, 2014 Santiago, Chile In 1324, Mansa Musa, the tenth emperor of the Mali Empire, set off from Western Africa on his pilgrimage to Mecca. This was no Spartan journey. He was accompanied on his way by a procession of 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves, each of whom carried
October 1, 2014 Santiago, Chile The Chinese central bank, People’s Bank of China, issued a press release announcing the authorization of direct trading between the renminbi and the euro on the inter-bank foreign exchange market. This is huge. The euro is the second most traded currency in the world, after
October 1, 2014 Santiago, Chile Edmundas B. was in Tel Aviv when he and his co-founders got the idea for an SaaS service to better connect web designers and developers with their clients. Grabbing his mobile phone and laptop, he quickly set up an LLC, for his startup TrackDuck, back
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