Catch Up, Orderly Mess and Alternative Investments

By Lawrence

iStock_000016001290XSmallTrying to catch up with emails, projects and everyday task over the past few days. Learned a few things from the experience. They are quite funny.

First, failing to clean up inbox for more than a week means many hours of work. Just identifying and deleting the spams already took hours. I did not know I depend on email so much these days. All utility bills, credit card statements, etc. are now all electronic.

As somebody who always think of the disaster scenario, this question pops up in my mind. What if the internet is disrupted permanently? What will happen to all those people, including me, who depend on the net so heavily for everyday tasks?

Second, I have quite a number of articles that were half done before September. I have trouble picking up from where I left off hence the delay of publishing new ones. I am sure the writer’s block is temporary. For my readers, there is nothing to worry about for now.

Third, the ongoing project of upgrading the real-time trading assistants has been progressing very well without my interference. Obviously my consistent requests to twist things here and there were very counter productive for my programmer. I must say it is a very good lesson for me.

My place is still in an orderly mess. I mean, I managed to organize some of the stuff in the right place and sorted the rest of the boxes but I am nowhere near completing the task. Just looking at the 20 boxes of books with one glance I already procrastinate. Damn those books are heavy!

This coming week I have several business meetings (or virtual meetings) to attend to. The talk of alternative investments has generated quite a lot of interest. Some business associates from my past are asking if I could structure the fixed income approach of backing proprietary trading into something formal so that it can be run as a fund. It is easy for me to do it myself for friends and family (well, am still doing it) but structuring this into a business will have quite a number of hurdles to overcome.

This alternative approach to investing can be big going into the future as banks and central banks are no longer providing the necessary guarantee on fund safety with their bonds and short term notes. Thus a void is left behind and there could be a huge market to monetize this idea. Will keep you all informed on this interesting development.

Fellow Canadians, Happy Thanksgiving!

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