QAV #612 — The MAXIMS of QAV

Lots of sell­ing, not much to buy; The MAXIMS of QAV; RMS makes takeover offer yes­ter­day for BRB; Bank Hybrids wiped out in UBS takeover of Cred­it Suisse; Banks and trust; Pulled pork : Ooh Media (OML); update on heavy min­er­al sands prod­ucts; what to do when you have a com­mod­i­ty sell, but the day you’re going to sell it, the price is going up; the size and dan­ger of ETFs; insights on the lithium/battery mar­ket; diver­si­fi­ca­tion with cor­po­rate bonds; South African cor­rup­tion.