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InvestmentAdviser ISSUE 29 September 2008 >> Comments
Leading Story
W is for Warren Buffett
Story by: Nick Rice, Investment Adviser
In recent Hollywood comedy About Schmidt, Jack Nicholson plays a newly-retired, newly-widowed insurance company employee with a medium-sized home in Omaha, Nebraska who, as old age begins to bite, decides to donate some of his takings to charity.
- Time published: 15:24
- Date published: 29.09.2008
- Published in: Investments
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Why US Treasury had to plug the leaky dam
The government bailout of mortgage companies was necessary to restore confidence and stop capital flight from the US
- Date published: 29.09.2008
FTSE indicator marks end game for crisis
With share yields outstripping gilts, the markets took off. What will it take to keep them moving?
- Date published: 29.09.2008
Always be aware of the human factor
Recent financial events prove the need to be objective when investing
- Date published: 29.09.2008
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Banks on the road to recovery
Given the significant events of the past weeks it is worth thinking about where we go from here on financials.
- Date published: 29.09.2008
Rare and thrilling Viognier back from the brink
Thirty years ago, you could have fitted the entire world’s crop of the Viognier grape into a single child’s size Wellington boot.
- Date published: 29.09.2008
High kill rate is skewing results
Product mergers and closures obscure tru performance of sector
- Date published: 29.09.2008
Recruitment drive on the road to nowhere
A little test for all you keen-eyed readers of Diary.
- Date published: 29.09.2008
Chancellor of Barnstaple and his crystal ball
Hindsight is an art, but then all credit should be given to those who were warning months ago that short selling could lead to the end of the financial world as we know it.
- Date published: 29.09.2008
Corporate cards buy more than one for the road
While the liquidity crisis may be behind the collapse of Lehman Brothers, there was no such problem with flow after employees were given their marching orders.
- Date published: 29.09.2008
Business as usual for Russian bankers
Times may be tough for the world's wealthy bankers, with many looking to tighten their belts as the economy gets more challenging.
- Date published: 29.09.2008
The moral maze
Disestablishmentarianism is a wonderful word: redolent of the centuries of activism advocating the separation of church and state.
- Date published: 29.09.2008
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