Chairman John Roberts, an Executive Director of Macquarie, has been the Global Head of Macquarie Capital Funds since August 2003. Joining the company in 1991, he is both Joint Head of the Macquarie Capital Advisers division and directly responsible for the Macquarie Capital Funds group. In addition to Macquarie, Mr. Roberts is a director of a number of listed and unlisted entities around the world that manage infrastructure investments.

Alternate Chairman Stephen Mentzines is an Executive Director of Macquarie and Head of Macquarie Capital Funds operations in North America. Prior to heading the North American operations, Mr. Mentzines was Global Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Macquarie Capital Funds. His responsibilities included new fund development, capital raisings and management, asset management, operations, finance, legal, compliance, tax, structuring, investor relations, communications and public affairs activities.

Director Norman Brown is currently a Member and Senior Managing Director of Brock Capital Group LLC. Prior to that,

Warren Buffett says buy. Jeremy Grantham says it will get worse. Both are celebrated value investors. Who is right? It all depends upon your view of the third derivative of investing. Today we look at valuations in the stock market. This is the second part of a speech I have given in the past few weeks in California and Stockholm. I am updating the numbers, as the target keeps moving. 

While from one perspective things look rather difficult, from another there is a ray of hope. What can you expect to earn from stocks over the next five years? It should make for an interesting letter. Note: this will be a little longer than usual, but part of it is there are a LOT of charts.

I likened this to the economic situation we are in now. With consumer spending “resetting” to a new lower level, we are going to have to