by The Investor
on August 1, 2009
Alas I didn’t personally interview the legendary David Swensen, creator of the Yale portfolio model. Monevator is a small fish in the big, shark-infested ocean of the financial media!
Rather Mike over at Oblivious Investor spotted these WealthTrack video interviews with Swensen on YouTube.
The interviews give an up-to-date insight into Swensen’s thinking, and are far less frenetic than the “future of the world in two seconds!” soundbites you get on CNBC.
Here are the two videos for the investing geeks among you, followed by my usual Saturday links:
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by The Investor
on July 31, 2009
I have an old Sony Ericsson phone that an unlucky mugger would throw back at me. It does the job, but it’s no boy’s toy.
I didn’t even pay for it! A friend gave it to me after a month because he only bought it to use while in Europe.
Its charger has a two-prong European plug. The adapter I use to power it in Britain costs £1.99. It’s my two-quid mobile phone.
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by The Investor
on July 28, 2009
I have written about several specific company’s shares here on Monevator over the past few months, and I thought it would be interesting to see what’s happened to them.
To do this properly, one would compare not only the price when I looked at them with the price today, but also the market move over that time.
It would also be good to look at the company newsflow and any financial results in the interim.
I don’t intend to do that. This is my personal blog, that doesn’t pay, and I’ve M&S sticky toffee pudding to tuck into.
These then are just my quick impressions of how accurate or otherwise my initial thoughts turned out, and an indication of how I traded them where applicable.
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by The Investor
on July 25, 2009
I am almost fully invested, so you might think I’d be glad to see the Dow over 9,000 and the FTSE tickling the 4,600 mark again.
Certainly it’s a relief after 18 months of seeing my net worth evaporate week by week.
I’ve written many times on Monevator that bear markets don’t last forever, but even I have to pinch myself when I find myself materially richer at the end of the day.
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