Further reading for the weekend : analysing your portfolio, Yergin on energy futures, and mining stocks are dirt cheap

Plus workshy American men and the dangerous Chinese ideologist worth watching.

Portfolio Analytics

One of my pet peeves is that investors don’t really have access to useful portfolio analysis tools. To understand what I mean by this, ask yourself one question - do you know how your portfolio (s) perform against their benchmarks? Or, do you have any idea exactly how risky your portfolios are? My suspicion is that the vast majority o…