Don’t Worry About Beating the Market

Individual investors can march to the beat of their own drum, giving them a significant advantage over professionals. It is a simple question and goes to the heart of any investor’s journey. My answer is, do you want to beat the market? The benchmark indices were set up so you can measure your performance against…

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The Harry Kane Portfolio

What does Harry Kane, English football’s highest ever scorer, have to do with investing? Henry Jennings explains. I have this theory, one that I have put to some of my fellow Englishmen, that Harry Kane is a hoax. Now I know that Harry Kane, the captain of the English football team, is now the highest…

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Christmas Message from Marcus and Henry

Another year down. Our 24th. We survived. I guess it’s hard for some newsletter writers, journalists and commentators to constantly work under deadlines, deadlines that constantly renew the moment they are met. I admire you all, I admire my competitors (the good ones). You are a tough lot doing that all year. But luckily, Henry…

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Why Bother Investing At All?

Ithaca is the island in Greece that Odysseus had so much trouble returning to in Homer’s Odyssey. On his way he survives run ins with the Cicones, Polyphemus (Cyclops to you), Circe, the Sirens, Scylla, the winds of Aeolus, the Laestrygonians, Zeus, Poseidon and Calypso. A rough trot, and when he finally gets there no…

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ResMed (RMD)

If Only

‘If only’ I had adopted the Marcus ‘One Stock Folio’ and put all my funds into ResMed (RMD), I would be very much better off right now.  Every time I review my folio, I come upon the same issue.  Amongst the solid performers, the failures and the hopefuls, ResMed stands out.  It is now my most significant…

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Eustress

What is ‘Eustress’? A few weeks ago, one of our members responded to my Retirement Today article with the following comment: “I can think of no better way to live after 65 than to be an active share investor/trader. Learning about new business ideas, especially technological inventions, is interesting enough, let alone the risk element…

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September Voodoo - Marcus Padley

September Voodoo

This is a Heat Map of the All Ordinaries index showing the performance every month since 1982 (over 40 years). Source: Refinitiv   Interested in Marcus Today? Marcus Today contains stock market education and ideas every day. Sign up for a no-obligation 14-day free trial.   You can see that the average Australian market performance…

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