Some interesting financial and investing posts I ran across this week, plus a few decent articles from the newspapers.
It shouldn’t take Saving Private Ryan to remind us of the immense debt we owe to the 1944 generation who invaded Normandy [1]65 years ago today, particularly when only a handful of veterans still survive.
But I saw it last night, and I was reminded anew.
Oddly I’d never seen the 1998 release before. It’s a brutal anti-war classic, whereas I expected Spielberg schmaltz. My only criticism would be it presents the war as the U.S. versus Germany – the only mention of the Brits is when Ted Danson from Cheers mutters that UK battlefield genius Monty is “over-rated”.
Perhaps French Prime Minister Nikolas Sarkozy had the film in mind when he decided not to invite the Queen to the upcoming celebrations?
Good reads from the money blogs
- Amateur Asset Allocator says diversification is not dead [2].
- Oblivious Investor warns common sense thinking [3] can lead you astray when investing.
- Moolanomy considers the mathematics of delaying your retirement [4].
- Dshort.com has an interesting interactive graph showing the four worst bear markets [5]. The current one doesn’t seem so atypical. Perhaps all bear markets are driven lower by fear it’s the new 1929? I also like this one [6] that dates the current bear market to 2000. So do I. Scary for short-term bulls, but as you know I’ll keep buying [7].
- Here’s another one from Kyle at AAA. A corker on why women should buy engagement rings [8].
Generally UK-related articles from other websites and papers
- The Telegraph highlights 20 albums that are also investments [9].
- Big news – the Coppock indicator says buy [10], reports the FT.
- The Independent‘s regular fund watch turns to emerging markets [11]. I like the case, but would rather drip feed money in via cheap ETFs or Investment Trusts.
- The Motley Fool revisits the commodity super-cycle [12].
- The Times warns that banks are pulling their best ISA rates [13] after being swamped by demand.
- CityWire revisits the case for holding fixed interest [14] even as equities rally.
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