I live in Massachusetts and let’s face it; we live in what is perceived to be a high tax state. Whether this belief is true or not we share that belief of high taxes with California, New York, New Jersey and Michigan. On the other hand Florida, Texas and North...
I think I was subscriber number 293 – certainly somewhere under one thousand. That got me the privilege of sharing a Dim Sum meal in Boston’s Chinatown with the curly haired, lightening talking, quick-fire questioning editor of what was then known as PE Week Wire. In...
Is 2011 a Wasteland or Playground? It seems my industry colleagues have continued to be wrongly optimistic about their personal income against a backdrop of continued and decided lack of confidence in the economy and their national governments. That appears to be the...
The Semaphore Confidence Survey respondents are truly prescient. If America had only listened to our results last year it would have saved the American people over a Billion dollars in advertisements and political machinations in the just concluded presidential...
Apocalyptic Future or Salvation? A few days ago Luisa Beltran of PE Hub asked whether and what we should call the now popular appellation “Zombie Funds”. I responded to her with the following: “Here at Semaphore we call them “clients”. No need for a pejorative...
Why our feet are not stuck in the mud. I truly thought we might be skipping this 7th annual post – or have to retitle it “Feet Stuck in Mud”. The cycle of summer seems to start only after the kids leave school and then return. My wife Tricia used to say “summer starts...
