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Five Behavioural Biases be Aware of … and Avoid

1 May 2019

We present five short illustrations of behavioural biases that can be very damaging to your wealth. The psychology that drives behavioural finance is one of the most rapidly developing scientific fields of research in the area of investing. We have explored the academic papers produced by leaders in this field, both past and present. We have tried to make these vignettes both interesting and entertaining. We hope you enjoy what you are about to read … and urge you to apply what you learn in both your investment and other important aspects of life.

Three Pillars Investing: Attitude, Aptitude, Altitude

30 Apr 2019

For a portfolio to reach the desired altitude, it must comprise securities that are highly likely to rise in both value and price. The question is: what steps does on take to maximise the chances that one’s portfolio is populated by such securities?

Investment & Economic Review April 2019

10 Apr 2019

The first quarter of 2019 was distinctly different, and much improved, from the final quarter of last year.  Stock markets which had slumped badly recovered just as quickly, erasing the losses of late-2018 within a few months.

Three Pillars Investing: Attitude, Aptitude, Altitude

30 Mar 2019

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.

Learning from the Greats series - John Maynard Keynes

13 Mar 2019

This giant of economic thinking wrote the following in his book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, published in 1919, a year after the end of WWI: ‘If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp. Nothing can then delay for very long that final war between the forces of Reaction and the despairing consequences of Revolution, before which the horrors of the late German war will fade into nothing.’

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