Fortescue value trap lures greater fools

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Simpletons and rent-seekers are the usual fare at the AFR:

Fund managers including Ellerston Capital’s Chris Kourtis and brokers are turning bullish on Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue, despite the slumping iron ore price weighing heavily on the longtime ASX pariah.

In the last two weeks, four equity research firms – Citi, Morningstar, JPMorgan and Morgans Financial – have upgraded their outlook for the iron ore giant, all citing Fortescue’s beaten-up share price as attractive for investors.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.