The concept for this article has been unashamedly stolen from Warren Buffet although it has been given an an Australian flavour. He expounded the US version in a speech in 1984 commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the book Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, the bible of value investing. He called his speech…
Back on February 21st, we wrote of the need to be careful as snipers about. We had compared the market during reporting season to a bloody futile charge at enemy lines during WW1. One by one of the star stocks was being picked off. In fact, we had spent some time deliberating on the APT…
Season’s greetings, we hope you enjoy our MT Christmas reading list which the team have put together for our members. This is a list of books that have been of great influence, helpful in their investing and research process or have been a great source of wisdom. Not sure what to buy your loved one’s…
I wrote this article a few years ago and I reproduce it for my 60th Birthday. 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,…
Those Ads showing 20-year-olds stepping out of limousines in New York trading forex on their mobile phone are one the most fantastic advertising deceptions you will ever see.
Anyone who’s been to Las Vegas will know what I mean when I say it’s a place that everyone has to visit but no one wants to stay. I tried to get married again. Elvis was prepared to pick us up from out hotel in a stretch limo, take us to the chapel, be our…
