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Here are two short ramblings from discussions I have had recently on the market action and investing pension assets in Bermuda.
Melt-up
The S&P 500 is levitating nicely. To many I talk to there is some confusion and dismay. They read all the negativ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
Many years ago, when I was still living in Russia, I saw a stunningly beautiful photograph in a travel magazine. Thousands of large, snow-white lanterns with a brightly burning fire inside were flying in the evening sky towards a huge, full moon.
Thi...
DATE: Nov 21, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nina London
Planning for your future is simple: do you believe that?
Most people think it is important — but only a few actually do it. There is a hesitancy for many people — either caused by putting it off, or being scared to do it, or not knowing how to get st...
DATE: Nov 21, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bill Storie
When someone mentions a personal trainer, what comes to mind?
Do you automatically think of some immortal being sculpted with six-pack abs who sips green shakes every morning?
Or a drill sergeant who barks orders in order to get you scared and make y...
DATE: Nov 20, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Betty Doyling
As those of you who follow Olderhood will know, my business partner Bill Storie is a Scottish chartered accountant and the undisputed financial whiz kid in the family.
This is good in that it alleviates me from the responsibility of offering strateg...
DATE: Nov 19, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Robin Trimingham
This is part two of the Bermuda Hypothetical Investment Portfolio, a continuation of last week’s article where Moneywise introduced the concept for selecting and tracking a pretend portfolio of stocks, bonds, and cash once a month for year, ending wi...
DATE: Nov 16, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
“Your hair is too long; you are going to get it cut!”
“March yourself round to Angle Street!”
“It’s back-to-school time, so you know what you have to do.”
“You had your ears lifted.”
Words that every young man from the back of town, or parts close b...
DATE: Nov 15, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
As a boy, he moved from Algeria to France with his family and attended ?a private school that he dropped out of at age 15.
He still maintains that he does not know a word of English, as he is “not smart enough for that”.
Some years go by and Jean-...
DATE: Nov 15, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Michael Robinson
I have loved hot chocolate ever since I was little — preferably covered in whipped cream and marshmallows.
I was definitely sugar-addicted, but there was a comfort element too. A cup of something warm and sweet when you’re growing up in the drizzly ...
DATE: Nov 15, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
Two contrasting ideas that underscore a tale of two cities: the Premier’s speech about market intervention, and Robert Pires’s purported comment that Portuguese were brought to Bermuda because blacks after slavery did not want to work.
The two commen...
DATE: Nov 14, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi