The dangers of investing everything in growth companies, plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
The Investor
The active fund management industry makes billions and doesn’t deliver what it says on the tin, and most people are none the wiser.
Good reads from around the Web. Lots of amateur investors daydream about being the next great stock picker – a contrary-minded Buffett for the 21st Century. But very few people are wired right (or perhaps that should be wired wrong…) For most, being a contrarian investor gets no further than reading a magazine article about being [...]
Good reads from around the Web. I know someone looking to buy a flat in London who was astonished last week to find his low-ball opening gambit treated with some reverence. Earlier this year our mild-mannered friends had recounted harrowing tales of being transformed into bare-toothed gazumpers by those insidious ‘open house’ days, which were [...]