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Changing Chinese Consumption: An Opportunity for Alibaba and TenCent

The new era in Chinese domestic consumption offers a glimpse into the likely future of global retail patterns. More than $413 billion of goods...

Changing Chinese Consumption: An Opportunity for Alibaba and TenCent

The new era in Chinese domestic consumption offers a glimpse into the likely future of global retail patterns. More than $413 billion of goods...

AMLP’s Shrinking Investor Base

The Alerian MLP ETF (AMLP) remains the largest ETF in the sector, in spite of its ruinous tax drag (see MLP Funds Made for...

How big is the GAMING opportunity?

Investing in Entertainment: I spend an enormous amount of time looking at consumer trends and one theme in particular is “entertainment”. As human beings we...

MLP Humor — A Target-Rich Environment

Humor can be a most effective weapon against your adversaries, especially when more extreme measures are unavailable.  MLP management teams have made many poor...

Blinded By The Bonds

German 30 year bunds yield 0.6%. Investors are inured to insultingly low yields, but somehow this still shocks. The ECB defines price stability as...

Selling Insurance in Stormy Market Conditions

It may come as no big surprise that you wouldn’t have much luck trying to purchase flood insurance for your home on a barrier...

Puts Provide Market Insurance

Insurance is purchased for almost every aspect of our lives from health and disability to our homes and cars in order to protect us...

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