29
Aug
The Thanksgiving Turkey
Recency bias permeates all aspects of our lives. Fortunately, as an investor, there are several steps you can take to mitigate its effects....
20
Aug
Hubris Always Seems Ridiculous – Until It's Our Own
There are many steps we can take as investors to shield ourselves from the worst aspects of our emotional behaviour, but one of the most effective, by far, is process, process, process....
17
Aug
The Weekend Starts Here...
Maniacs; divisive politics; we don't work as many hours as we think we do; bubbles; knowledge; expected returns; the democratisation of information; volatility. The best of what I read this week....
14
Aug
The Money Value of Time
Money gives us choices. After satisfying our need for food, clothing and shelter, we can choose how we allocate our discretionary expenditure....
10
Aug
The Weekend Starts Here...
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...
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Behaviour / Books / Clients / Financial planning / Investment / Money values / People / Risk
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06
Aug
Books I Read in... July 2018
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...
27
Jul
The Weekend Starts Here...
Photo by Helena Yankovska on Unsplash “Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.” How we succumb to obsessing over low probability risks [3 min read] [Ben Carlson] Google Maps has 99% coverage of the world, 25 million updates daily,...
24
Jul
Constructing Your Investment Portfolio - Keep It Simple
Asset allocation seems to be something which people can struggle with, and feel that ‘More is more’. Here at Bloomsbury, we like to keep things simple....
20
Jul
The Weekend Starts Here...
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....
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Behaviour / Clients / Financial planning / Investment / Lifestyle / Risk
/ Read Time: < 1 minute
17
Jul
The Nurse Bryan Rule
A reporter asked the legendary cellist Pablo Casals on his 95th birthday “Mr Casals, you’re 95 and the greatest cellist who ever lived. Why do you still practice six hours a day?” Casals answered, “Because I think I’m making progress.”...