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Three Pillars Investing: Attitude, Aptitude, Altitude

16 Dec 2018

‘Altitude’ is generally accepted as meaning the height of an object above a certain benchmark (e.g. a plane in flight achieves what the pilot will convey to passengers as ‘cruising altitude’ meaning how far the plane is above sea or ground level).

The Disposition Effect

19 Nov 2018

The ‘disposition effect’ has been described as ‘One of the most robust facts about the trading of individual investors’ (Barberis & Xiong).  Professor Hersh Shefrin (Santa Clara University, USA) describes the effect as ‘a predisposition toward get-evenitis’.


Three Pillars Investing: Attitude, Aptitude, Altitude

7 Nov 2018

One’s attitude towards investing is likely to be heavily influenced by age.

While not a hard and fast rule, young investors are more likely to take greater risks than older investors; the rationale being that, if things go sour, younger investors have more time to ‘get things right’.

Well, yes, though not always.

13 things Australian investors can learn from overseas

2 Nov 2018
13 things Australian investors can learn from overseas

Many things affect the Australian stock market, including the state of the national economy, corporate profits, government policy (including corporate tax rates and interest rates) and business and investor confidence.

Three Pillars Investing: Attitude, Aptitude, Altitude

31 Oct 2018

Let's start with an immutable fact: the best investment any person can make is the one they make in themselves. 

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