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10 Aug The Weekend Starts Here...

Posted at 11:15h in Behaviour, Books, Clients, Financial planning, Investment, Money values, People, Risk

3 cracking books; Appealing Fictions; Making a Market; Timeless Investment Principles; To Do lists; Capitalism; Asking for Help; The (other) problem with active management; Zero fee funds; Table Stakes; French pastry wars. The best of what I read and watched this week...

06 Aug Books I Read in... July 2018

Posted at 14:30h in Books

With temperatures nudging triple digits for most of the month once the morning farm chores are done all of us living here retreat to the cool of the house or the barns during daylight hours. But come the evening, when the temperature drops to...

13 Jul The Weekend Starts Here...

Posted at 09:54h in Behaviour, Books, Clients, Financial planning, Investment, People, Risk

There's no such thing as too big to be simple; asset allocation across different ages; the ugly side of social media; you can't measure what's going on in people's heads; our behavioural biases; selecting an active fund manager; reading; financial therapy & marathons fuelled by...

06 Jul The Weekend Starts Here...

Posted at 10:43h in Behaviour, Books, Clients, Engagement, Financial planning, Investment

Books I read in June; advice to a stranger; proof negative; betting on things that never change; EBI West 2018; boring is good; the #1 rule in investing; fighting the good fight. The best of what I've been reading & listening to...

03 Jul Books I Read In.... June 2018

Posted at 09:00h in Behaviour, Books, Investment, People

Bailout Nation by Barry Ritholz; Factfulness by Hans Rosling; I, Fatty by Jerry Stahl and Big Mistakes by Michael Batnick. The best of what I read in June....

08 Jun The weekend starts here...

Posted at 08:48h in Behaviour, Books, Financial planning, Investment, Risk

Is The Handmaid's Tale fast approaching? The Psychology of Money. If bomb disposal experts can remain calm at work, so can you. News is Old. Life expectancy in Britain. The Next Fifty Years. Investor Coevolution. The importance of remaining intellectually curious. How do...

05 Jun Books I Read in... May 2018

Posted at 10:39h in Books

Cracking good reads this month: Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage – Alfred Lansing; Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson; The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Nassim Nicholas Taleb ; Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder, and the Birth of the FBI...

15 May Private Equity Laid Bare - Ludovic Phalippou

Posted at 14:01h in Books, Investment, Risk

“The big private equity funds have proven to be a menace to healthy companies, to workers’ rights… These leveraged buy-outs leave the company saddled with debt and interest payments, its workers are laid off, and its assets are sold. A once profitable and healthy company...

01 May Books I read in... April 2018

Posted at 14:30h in Books

A wanton seductress; the LIBOR scandal; what makes Pixar tick and a retelling of the story of Cain & Abel. These books are the best of what I read in April...

13 Apr The weekend starts here....

Posted at 15:32h in Behaviour, Books, Business, Clients, Education, Engagement, Financial planning, Goals, Investment, Money values

The importance of effective communication; can money buy you happiness; beware the soothsayers; just because you can stop working doesn't mean you have to; the main reason for rebalancing your portfolio, and listening to rhubarb grow. These are the best of what caught my...