Happy New Year from Dublin. The year was a pretty good one for EGP in absolute terms, our unit price was $0.96254 this day last year and today we find it (unaudited at this point) 26.47% higher at $1.21730. The ASX200TR index advanced from 30879.12 to 37134.53, for a gain of 20.26%. Regular readers will […]
Monthly Archives: December 2012
A positive shortened trading week for both EGP Fund No. 1 Pty Ltd (up about 1.6% to a new all-time high) and for our benchmark (up about 1% to the highest level since the inception of EGP). There is one shortened trading day left in the period and barring an inexplicable collapse in the value […]
A positive week led to a 1.33% rise in the EGP price to $1.20462, less than 0.5% behind the all-time high. This came against an also impressive 1.05% rise for the ASX200 (it sits the highest ever since EGP’s inception). It will be interesting to see if the strong performance over the last few months […]
You can now follow me on twitter @EGPtony I will probably be an infrequent tweeter, but will try to let quality rule over quantity. From next year, I will ‘tweet’ the EGP Fund No. 1 price per share & how we’re going against the benchmark and a link to the blog each week after I […]
In the last 2 years, with interest rates at or very near historic lows, Australian holdings of “Term Deposits” have more than doubled. This was from a story in the Australian Financial Review perhaps Wednesday this week. From memory, it showed since 2010 Australian TD’s have gone from around $300B to about $600B currently. Looking […]