yeh, good points14 May 2013 14:31
I think the gap between current SPs and brokers' valuations is the complicated thing called "sentiment", which includes lack of trust to blenoil's point. Not only in the brokers, but in the companies not issuing more shares, taking on more debt, commodity prices holding up or not, euro zone dramatics, demand from India, China, Russia for metals etc. In a nutshell, the sentiment is that we don't trust the broker's assumptions on those factors, therefore we PIs hedge it by maintaining a good discount! At least that's what I do!