đź”’ Black Swan’s Taleb warns ‘Disneyland’ is over for investors
Nassim Taleb gives insight into the current harsh reality for investors – with a major series of asset bubbles and soaring inequality.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
🔒 How to avoid becoming a pawn of society’s myth creators
Society will probably never be able to stop odious actors from perpetrating propaganda. But free access to information makes it a lot more difficult to turn them into believable myths.
Alec Hogg: My five life-changing books
I’ve been talking to a few younger people recently, asking advice on books to read. I came up with five books that are guaranteed to improve your life.
Joining Foord in TenCent – and aware of the “unknown, unknowns”
By Alec Hogg Enjoyed a stimulating few hours at the annual Morningstar Conference in Cape Town yesterday. Topped by listening to two low-profile doyens of the money management business, Dave Foord (Foord AM) and Sandy McGregor (Allan Gray). Foord has spent the last 33 years building his successful business by keeping a tight team, focusing … Read more
SA swoons for R13bn platinum mine promoter Robert Friedland; Steve Jobs warned he’s a con man, charlatan
Mining entrepreneur Robert Friedland is, well, interesting. Listed by Forbes magazine as a billionaire with $1.15bn net worth, Ivanhoe Mining’s founder attracts controversy like horses do flies. A brief Google search uncovers a two year jail sentence for drug dealing; an early US project still ranked the country’s worst contaminator; and, more recently, news of … Read more
About Alec Hogg – the founder of Biznews.com
Alec Hogg (53) is a South African financial journalist and media entrepreneur. His career kicked off in 1980 when he was employed as a trainee financial journalist at The Citizen newspaper. After progressing through senior positions at national newspapers and magazines, Hogg started his first business, a financial news agency, in 1988. After an unsuccessfully publishing … Read more