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China heading for debt disaster, sure sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... explode...tick tock tick tock. Yes, the headlines make for grim reading. There's Bloomberg's William Pesek writing about George Soros' writing about China's looming debt disaster. "To Soros, the main risk facing the world isn't the euro, the US Congress ...

New index offers chance to invest like a billionaire

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... Index, which tracks the blue-chip stock holdings of billionaire investors, including Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn and George Soros. Devised from the quarterly disclosures investment managers are required to lodge with the Securities Exchange Commission ...

Star manager Tagliaferro adopts "mentor role"

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... The World's 99 Greatest Investors. The fund manager appears alongside industry legends including Warren Buffett and George Soros. In fitting with his mentor role at IML, Tagliaferro has one piece of advice for younger fund managers. "You always have ...

Secrets of world's greatest investors revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... such as Warren Buffett and right hand man Charlie Munger, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim and industry superstar George Soros. Australians on the list include the late Robert Maple-Brown, Platinum's Kerr Neilson, ex-pat CQS hedge fund legend Michael ...

China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... "We haven't forgotten what happened to the BOE," - referring to the pound's forced devaluation back in 1992 when George Soros bet against the BOE - "I don't think anyone can break the Fed". For those who've forgotten. This was the same tactic employed ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... effect? They bet against the A$ versus the big one with Druckenmiller -- known to have made a cool US$1 billion for George Soros in 1992 when he bet against the pound - declaring at the Ira Sohn Investment Conference in New York last week that the Australian ...

Soros family office buys into Man United

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
George Soros has taken a 7.85% stake in Manchester United through his family office investment arm, Quantum Partners. News of the purchase surfaced yesterday after the Financial Times cited a filing with the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). ...

Dressing the windows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... "make or break" summit (again) - and it won't be a stretch to come to this conclusion. In particular, if you've read George Soros' interview with "Der Spiegel" magazine, blaming Germany for this on-going crisis. "Germany could leave, but it would be ...

Autumn Angst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... British pound plunged by more than 4.2% on 16 September 1992 and by another 4.9% four days later. But it wasn't only George Soros - who reportedly made a cool bil sterling -- betting against the pound that profited, UK's economy also resumed growing ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... ultimately give one and all the double-dip in the US and Europe that one and all fear. This was the same message George Soros, founder and manager of Quantum Fund, conveyed during his interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine last week. Asked if ...