03 Jul Books I Read In.... June 2018
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....
22 Jun The Weekend Starts Here...
Watch out for fraudsters; the history of the Galton Board; clients' little foibles; the man behind 'Catch me if you can' gives a talk at Google; when values are built on sand; wealthy vs rich; the luxury of having time to concentrate on what clients...
15 Jun The Weekend Starts Here...
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...
11 Jun You get what you don't pay for
There’s no doubt that investors need greater transparency and for the costs they are paying to be presented in a way which is both easy for them to understand and helps to inform their choices by being presented in a manner which enables them to...
08 Jun The weekend starts here...
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...
22 May Lenin's Brain
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
“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....
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...
04 May The weekend starts here...
Human nature; the value of time; the difference the right financial adviser can make; signal v noise; choose your friends carefully; Planning 101; the cost of waiting and how not to invest like a billionaire. The best of what I read this week...
27 Apr The weekend starts here...
Fast decision making; the good, bad and ugly of owning stock in the company you work for; living your dream is not always what it's cracked up to be; the importance of being a patient investor; and a long-term one; managing luck; the price of...