roe - on its own, it can mislead badly, page-14

Roddy Boyd indicated in this piece about a week ago that Canada's Brookfield Asset Management could be some kind of Babcock & Brown on steroids:

http://sirf-online.org/2013/03/11/paper-world-of-brookfield-asset-management/

I can't say I've looked closely (I don't sell short), but with EBIT in 2010 & 2011 of $7.52b & cash from operations of $2.1b over the same period, you'd better hope the unrealised gains stick... - Eternalgrowth