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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...

20 Jul The Weekend Starts Here...

Posted at 15:19h in Behaviour, Clients, Financial planning, Investment, Lifestyle, Risk

Diversification; luck; the similarities between investing & gardening; magical thinking; staying humble; what makes a great investor; gold or stocks; the importance of having an IPS; camera wielding pigeons. Things which caught my eye this week....

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...

15 Jun The Weekend Starts Here...

Posted at 10:30h in Behaviour, Financial planning, Investment, People, Risk

How to make better decisions; the difference between speculating & investing; repeating themes; the depression meme; costs matter; the new normal; it could happen to anyone; the unexpected leads to the unexpected; focus on what you can control; why markets ignore Trump; a mind boggling...

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...

01 Jun The Weekend Starts Here...

Posted at 13:11h in Behaviour, Engagement, Family, Financial planning, Goals, Investment, Lifestyle, Money values, Risk

The perils of living next door to a lottery winner; Wall St convicts; Do you feel lucky?; Having all your eggs in one basket; the value a good planner adds; Helping our clients spend their money; Beware of hot tips from friends; Not all the...

22 May Lenin's Brain

Posted at 14:30h in Investment, Risk

The word ‘genius’ gets bandied about a lot. I am a believer in genius, as opposed to exceptional intelligence, but I think it is much rarer an attribute than we think....

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...

11 May The weekend starts here....

Posted at 14:54h in Behaviour, Clients, Financial planning, Goals, Investment, Philosophy, Risk

Buffett; humility and our ability to learn; hungry mice; turning desert sand into farmland; the cost of bad advice; the benefits of doing nothing; it's ok to sin a little; humility (again); how the mighty are fallen; GDPR, and Buffett (again). The best of what...

16 Mar The weekend starts here...

Posted at 15:45h in Behaviour, Financial planning, Goals, Investment, Risk

Lottery hackers; Growth without goals; Passive investors under attack; Expectations v Forecasts, and mourning the loss of two greats. My top picks this week...