James Montier: How To Protect Yourself From Wall Street’s ‘Self-Serving’ Biases

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In his book – The Little Book of Behavioral Investing, James Montier wrote a great passage on how investors can identify and protect themselves from becoming victims of Wall Street’s self-serving biases. Here’s an excerpt from that book: So much for nature. Nurture also helps to generate the generally rose-tinted … Read More

This Week’s Best Investing Reads 12/7/2018

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Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: Love, Happiness, and Time (Farnam Street) The Market Right Now Doesn’t Care How Fantastic Your Stocks Are (Vitaliy Katsenelson) The 80-Hour Workweek (A Wealth of Common Sense) Facebook Is Undervalued (Base Hit Investing) The Law of Large Numbers (The Irrelevant Investor) Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth (Scientific … Read More

Seth Klarman: One Of Society’s Most Vexing Problems Is The Relentlessly Short-Term Orientation That Manifests Itself In Investing

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We’ve just been reading Seth Klarman’s latest speech at the Harvard Business School. During the speech Klarman provides some great insights into the problems with a short-term orientation in investing. Here’s an excerpt from the speech: Consider corporate time horizons. It’s a choice to attempt to maximize corporate results over … Read More

This Week’s Best Investing Reads 11/30/2018

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Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: Battling Entropy: Making Order of the Chaos in Our Lives (Farnam Street) My favorite analogy for stocks vs the economy (The Reformed Broker) Why BRK? (The Brooklyn Investor) The Stock Market Doesn’t Care About You (A Wealth of Common Sense) Selfish Writing (Collaboratve Fund) The Nifty Fifty (The Irrelevant Investor) The Fed Warns The … Read More

Charles Munger: A Parody About The Great Recession

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One of the best articles ever written about the ‘Great Recession’ is Charles Munger’s – Parody Describing The Contributions of Wantmore, Tweakmore, Totalscum, Countwrong, and Obvilious To The Tragic ‘Great Recession’ in Boneheadia and The Thoughts of Some People Relating To The Disaster. While the entire article is six pages … Read More

Howard Marks: Avoiding All Losses Can Render Success Unachievable Almost As Readily As Can The Occurrence Of Too Many Losses

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In his 2014 memo – Dare To Be Great, Howard Marks says successful investing includes dealing with some losses saying: “To succeed at any activity involving the pursuit of gain, we have to be able to withstand the possibility of loss. A goal of avoiding all losses can render success … Read More

This Week’s Best Investing Reads 11/22/2018

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Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: There’s Seldom Any Traffic on the High Road (Farnam Street) Surveying the Damage in Stocks (A Wealth of Common Sense) Yards After Contact (The Reformed Broker) To Succeed In The Markets You Must Become A ‘Second Level Thinker’ (The Felder Report) Humble Exits (Collaborative Fund) Price is set at the margin (csinvesting) … Read More