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Blue Chip Portfolio

There has been a bit of chatter on the Mentor forum about the philosophy of buying blue chip portfolios so I thought I would generate a simple table of  the maximum drawdown experienced by each of the ASX 20 since 2000.   As you can see the drawdowns are for the most part horrendous with…

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Do Investors Have Too Much Information?

This is the title of a CNN Money article. The issue is in many ways hidden by the title and the accepted belief that we live in an era where information overload is the default setting for any and all activities. Undoubtedly information overload is an issue for traders. This is a natural consequence of…

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The Neuroscience of Why Gratitude Makes Us Healthier

Ignore the airy fairy, crystal rubbing, tree hugging, knitted wool beanie feel of the site and concentrate on the message. In one study on gratitude, conducted by Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D., at the University of California at Davis and his colleague Mike McCullough at the University of Miami, randomly assigned participants were given one of…

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The Smartest Person I Have Never Heard Of

By the end of his life, Ovshinsky had established a new field of science: the study of “amorphous” materials, messy solids that have no regular atomic structure. He published around 300 academic papers on the subject. His inventions gained more than 400 patents. All this from a man who taught himself physics using books borrowed…

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Does Studying Economics Make You A Bad Person

Whilst my views on Economics as a pseudoscience are well known I am not certain about this piece in Psychology Today   In 1776, Adam Smith famously wrote: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own…

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Fear And The Art Of Trading

Trading or investing (I use the terms interchangeably) is at its core an information processing profession. The job of a trader is to take the information they receive and distil it into a cohesive, coherent format from which they can derive a decision. The expected end point of this decision is that the trade that…

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QOTD

I was preparing a piece for the Australian Investors Association when I came across this quote. The story telling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is…

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Forget the Flu: Entrepreneurship May Be Viral

Whilst away for a strategy meeting last week part of the conversation drifted to the notion of working for yourself as a lifestyle choice. A subset of that discussion was simply why the f#%k would you willingly work for someone else. We all tried to work out the premium  that would be required for us…

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