Expert Interview Series: Louise Bedford
LB recently did a guest spot on Expert Interview for Best Choice Software. The entire thing can be found here.
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FINANCIERS FIGHT OVER THE AMERICAN DREAM
A long read but worth it. In the past I have written about the danger of combining hubris with concentration bets. One day in the summer of 2011, Christine Richard arrived at the forty-second floor of a high-rise on Fifty-seventh Street in Manhattan to visit a hedge fund called Pershing Square Capital Management. Richard worked…
Success
When I first went to university the initial week was filled with the usual getting to know the lay of the land such as how the library works (in a surprisingly mysterious way I might add), where various labs where and what the protocol for various subjects was. One of the most striking events was…
Damn….Beaten By The Kiwi’s Again
Click the link below the pic to be taken to some fascinating graphics. Source – The Economist
Hey Charger
James H mentioned that he like a lot of us could remember these ads – its amazing what a bit of google-fu can find…
Bias
One of the interesting things about trading is its inherent simplicity – you simply have to have some form of mechanism for gauging what the current bias of market participants is. They are either predominantly bullish or bearish – once you work that out the rest is padding to make yourself feel clever. However, there…
THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A FUCK
In my life, I have given a fuck about many people and many things. I have also not given a fuck about many people and many things. And those fucks I have not given have made all the difference. People often say the key to confidence and success in life is to simply “not give…
The Culture Principle – Ray Dalio And Bridgewater
At one of the gyms I used to frequent there was a trainer who used to do some very odd things and initially I could not work whether he was a mad genius or just a dickhead. In the end he turned out to be just a dickhead, my guess about Ray Dalio and the…
The Incredible True Story of the Real Life ‘Trading Places
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S&P/ASX 200 Volume
I was looking at the chart below of the ASX 200 and its volume. As you can see below the chart whilst looking reasonably standard has two points of interest for me. Firstly, the trace of volume by coincidence looks like a nice little bell curve, with the peak occurring as we initially bounced out…
The Misguided Beliefs of Financial Advisors
Below is the abstract from this paper – The Misguided Beliefs of Financial Advisors A common view of retail finance is that conflicts of interest contribute to the high cost of advice. Using detailed data on financial advisors and their clients, however, we show that most advisors invest their personal portfolios just like they advise…
The 100 Most Overpaid US CEOs
This piece by the Harvard Law Review is wonderfully comprehensive and can be downloaded from here. There is a summary posting here if you want the Readers Digest version. However, I would suggest downloading the entire thing. This charts stands out as highlighting the miserable performance of the most overpaid CEO’s . Once you read the…
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