This article references the recent high/low altitude of the ASX 200. From here onwards, these articles will examine the collective aspects of the three pillars in each issue to demonstrate how, in reality, attitude, aptitude and altitude comingle to provide the basis for understanding the investment process.

Your phone was neither designed nor made in Australia. Same goes for your car. And your TV. And your shoes. And the shirt or blouse on your back. Over 90% of what you use every single day was most likely made overseas. Does that tell you something?

A smartly dressed, thirty year old man boarded a train in New York city bound for the annual general meeting of the Northern Pipeline company; it was a little odd, to say the least, that the AGM would be held in Oil City, a small town in Pennsylvania, almost 400 miles from where its headquarters were located, just blocks away from Wall Street.