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What does outstanding stock picking look like?
Tim Kelley
February 22, 2018
Many readers will have some familiarity with the sorts of returns a successful stock-picker might aim to produce. Often, a fund will have an explicit target of beating the market by an amount of, say, 5 per cent per annum over rolling 5-year periods. While it doesn’t sound dramatic, this sort of extra return can compound into a very dramatic difference to investor wealth over long periods of time, and so it is very valuable. continue…
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A Biased map
Lisa Fedorenko
February 15, 2018
“Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behaviour” Warren Buffet. It is in the pursuit of such rational decisions that outside of bottom up company analysis, I spend a lot of time exploring and understanding cognitive biases. continue…
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Make market corrections your ally
Roger Montgomery
February 12, 2018
Recent experience excepted, corrections are typically more frequent and regular than many would prefer, so investing should not occur without acceptance of this. That said, it’s important to prepare, first by making the right investments, and secondly by adopting the right temperament. continue…
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Taking stock of risk
Scott Phillips
February 7, 2018
When markets take a tumble like we have seen across the equity world over the last few days, it’s usually the time investors reassess their view on risk! Booms, busts, stress and joy are driven by emotions and hence many investors have outsourced all or part of their investments to advisers or fund managers who are very risk aware and hopefully have risk at the forefront of their minds. continue…
by Scott Phillips Posted in Insightful Insights, Investing Education.
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WHAT DRIVES INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE?
Tim Kelley
February 2, 2018
We recently undertook an analysis to try to better understand the structure and behaviour of the equity market, with a view to identifying cause and effect relationships that drive investment performance. While the work is ongoing, some interesting early findings are emerging.
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Passive funds will feel the most pain when markets turn down
Roger Montgomery
December 21, 2017
When markets are rising – as they are right now – it can make sense to passively invest in index funds. But when a downturn inevitably comes, passive funds will be hit the hardest. We’re not the only commentator ringing the alarm bell. Warnings against passive strategies have been mounting throughout the year.
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A distribution of valuations
Lisa Fedorenko
December 14, 2017
Having finished an advanced mathematics degree, one question my peers often ask me is how does maths fit into investing? Today I wanted to focus on one of the ways maths can help shape investing decisions – in particular: probability distributions. continue…
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Value investing in the age of machine learning
Tim Kelley
November 14, 2017
The advent of machine-driven investing means that computers can quickly pounce on stocks that the market seems to have mispriced. This development has raised the bar for value investors seeking to outperform the market. But it’s not the beginning of the end for human stock-pickers.
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Active versus passive when prices are extremely stretched
Roger Montgomery
November 3, 2017
There’s a pithy marketing one-liner that has almost single-handedly produced a multi-billion dollar index-fund and ETF industry. It goes something like this; ‘Most active fund managers underperform the index.’ continue…
by Roger Montgomery Posted in Investing Education, Market commentary.
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When it comes to investing, is it better to think fast, or slow?
Lisa Fedorenko
November 1, 2017
What type of investor are you? When you make investment decisions, do you rely more on ‘gut feeling’, or analysis? It’s an important distinction. Because understanding the way you make decisions – fast or slow – can help you make better ones. continue…
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