Know Thyself
Some of us would love to be investors - what holds us back is temperament. We can't change who we are, but we can learn to anticipate our behaviour and keep our impulses at bay....
29 September, 2014
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Drawing Lessons
In the business of investing, failures are our best teacher. How can we hope to improve our game if we forget our past plays?...
29 September, 2014
Simple Pleasures
There are times when great investment opportunities are as plain as they appear. We tend to expect complexity, so we find it hard to accept that the market sometimes throws up extraordinary bargains. Don't look a gift horse in the month....
29 September, 2014
August Market Commentary
As outlined in previous commentaries, there have been some further slight reductions in the risk free rate which delineates the threshold between Fully Priced and Overpriced. The return available on a five year term deposit from a major Australian Bank now stands at 4.0%, and...
16 September, 2014
Phase Myopia
Curious Investor Behaviour - Number 1 Phase Myopia At different phases of the market, our perspective changes. In the steepening down phase there is a tendency to take an ever-narrower view of the facts, focusing on near-term risk rather than longer-term reward. Conversely, a developing bull market inspires...
08 September, 2014
Heuristic Simplification
Curious Investor Behaviour - Number 2 Heuristic Simplification According to Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, people are so swamped with information that they react consciously to only a tiny part of it. We adopt rules of thumb instead of absorbing the entire data. In general, shortcuts serve us well,...
08 September, 2014