What caught my eye this week.
I am down in Cornwall at the moment, living the outdoorsy middle-class Londoner’s cliché dream. Earlier this evening Paul Ainsworth [1] wowed with a rib. Yesterday a Rick Stein spot [2] did wonders with a negroni.
The Camel Estuary of course outshines [3] them all.
So technically I’m on my holidays. But this being October in the UK there’s been plenty of rain to keep me busy. Hence a short menu of links below.
Enjoy, please add anything you’ve spotted in the comments – and have a great weekend!
From Monevator
Three investing mistakes that cost me – Monevator [4]
From the archive-ator: which asset allocation is right for you? – Monevator [5]
News
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No improvement in fuel supplies, say retailers – BBC [7]
Millions of Britons face higher gas and electricity bills – Guardian [8]
Investors surge into VCTs ahead of dividend tax increase [Search result] – FT [9]
How much tax will you pay now stamp duty break has ended? – Which [10]
Outcry over proposal for lower student loan repayment threshold – Guardian [11]
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Stablecoins, stability, and financial inclusion – a16z [13]
Products and services
Buy-to-let landlords can now bag a sub-1% mortgage rate – ThisIsMoney [14]
Gatehouse Bank launches a best buy 1.51% ‘Green’ one-year savings bond – ThisIsMoney [15]
Sign-up to Freetrade via my link and we can both get a free share worth between £3 and £200 – Freetrade [16]
American Express boosts rewards for new Gold card customers – ThisIsMoney [17]
Homes for sale near good public transport, in pictures – Guardian [18]
Comment and opinion
Reversing the sequence of the last 40 years of returns – TEBI [19]
The broken clock – Of Dollars and Data [20]
Everyone can predict where life’s journey will end – Humble Dollar [21]
Save now, buy later – A Wealth of Common Sense [22]
The trouble with one-sided markets – Ritholtz [23]
The true cost of private schools – Banker on FIRE [24]
What financial advisors need to know about crypto – ETF.com [25]
Taking the Great out out of Britain – Simple Living in Somerset [26]
Naughty corner: Active antics
The arithmetic of high conviction portfolios – Klement on Investing [27]
Has the (latest) retail trading boom changed the stock market? – Factor Research [28]
I just don’t care – All-star Charts [29]
Widespread hedge fund outperformance is truly a thing of the past – TEBI [30]
The Milken way – Neckar’s New Money [31]
Covid corner
The 60-year old scientific screw-up that helped Covid kill – Wired [32]
Covid antiviral pill can halve the risk of hospitalization – BBC [33]
Kindle book bargains
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder – £3.89 on Kindle [34]
Environmental factors
Will lab-grown meat ever rival the real thing? – Guardian [35]
Off our beat
Steven Pinker: why doesn’t rationality seem to matter any more? – Harvard [36]
History’s seductive beliefs – Morgan Housel [37]
Ex-Morgan Stanley analyst explains the problem with banking jobs – EFC [38]
A hamster in a special cage has been trading cryptocurrency since June and is beating the S&P 500 – Markets Insider [39]
The Goldilocks fallacy – Seth Godin [40]
Existential optimism – Not Boring [41]
And finally…
“Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath.”
― Burton G. Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street [42]
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