2012

I haven’t learned as much as I could have from my lifelong fascination with games. If I’d been paying attention to how I win at Monopoly for example – remortgage aggressively, buy the mid-priced, well-placed orange squares, and then build, build, build – then I might have profited from last decade’s property boom. Alas, I have just [...]

Every now and then someone pats me on the head and tells me I don’t understand that the real smart money is in hedge funds. BAD IDEA.

The earnings yield is a way of looking at the income generated by a company in a similar way to the yield you’d get from a bond or the dividend yield of a share. It tells you what percentage return the company is making, on the basis of its after-tax income and the price you [...]