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The past can’t predict the future but….
The investment world spends much time poring over data in an attempt to predict future investment returns. But, as we know, the future is entirely unpredictable - there are no facts about it. However human nature is quite persistent, how we react as group – “the...
Don’t be stupid
Charlie Munger said: ““It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” Straight from the mouth of one of the most successful investors of all time. Avoid being...
Should you hire a professional anyone?
It's the age old conundrum of cost vs value vs "risk". In any and every field “risk” means avoiding a bad outcome. It is to the detriment of all that “risk” is so tightly associated to the ups and downs of investments In many areas it is obvious you should seek...
Some Quick Thoughts
08/04/24 Hope The incumbent offers the truth. Everyone else offers hope - the hope that the truth might become better elsewhere. As investors we hope the truth continues, the record to date certainly supports that hope. And that's safer than hoping the hope...
Coachability
In today’s world the ability to be your own boss – to set up a company, banking, all the infrastructure – has never been easier. When my children ask what I think they should do I will always reply: “Be an entrepreneur. Do what it takes to be captain of your own ship...
Problem and power
The problem should never be allowed to have the power. If it does it will always be a problem. If creativity towards the problem is given the power then it soon fades. Focus on the creativity not the "problem". It's what you then create will have the problem...
Transitions
Thoughts from our wellbeing coach, Suzan Issa: Life is filled with a series of transitions, each posing its own set of challenges. As creatures of habit, we become accustomed to routines, patterns, and expectations, making it particularly unsettling when these are...
TCFP104: 30 Things in 30 Years in Financial Services
2024 marks 30 years of me working in financial services, I started as a Trainee Broker Consultant at the Croydon branch of Scottish Equitable in October 1994. What lessons have I learned? More than I can remember, but below are 30 that came to me when I gave it...
Go to the corners
I was walking Frankie in a rectangular field the other day, where many others walk. A clear path has formed what I noticed is that it does not go into the corners – all the corners are cut. Cutting corners comes easily to us, but it’s not always to our benefit, for...
Time For Change?
Does our voting system work? Are the right people governing us? Or are they simply as collection of unemployable chancers? Has it always been so? Are these outcomes acceptable in any way at all? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/youth-unemployment-in-oecd-and-china/ or...
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