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Dangerously efficient

The pandemic has made us realise that for both businesses and individuals, it's possible to be harmfully efficient

The secret of successful investing

What is the secret to becoming a successful investor? What is the secret of finding out what the secret is?

The trade pushers

Easy mass adoption of the riskiest kind of trading behaviour is setting up a new generation for catastrophic losses

A cycle of stocks

Cyclicality is often misunderstood as a trading tool. In reality, it's an important fundamental concept

A year of COVID

15 months since I started writing about the impact of COVID on savings and investments, it's useful to look back and see whether it all still hangs together for the future

A bit of a problem

The time has come to stop tolerating Bitcoin

Is gold really golden?

Savers need to be clear about what gold is, and what it is not

Nothing changes

The Chinese virus returns with a vengeance, but in your savings management, there may be no logic for making changes

Solutions looking for problems

Cryptocurrencies and surrounding technologies are solutions looking for problems, which will actually create more problems for most of us

Just do the simple stuff

Keeping your investments simple means that you always understand what is happening and what you must do when things go wrong

Buffett's word on bonds

As Warren Buffett points out in his annual letter, faced with low returns, fixed-income investors are making some bad choices

The index-fund problem

The dominance of passive investing is ringing many alarm bells around the world

International funds should be a routine choice

No equity fund investors should ignore international funds

A new name for Ponzi schemes

Eternal vigilance and a healthy suspicion of anything new are needed to avoid becoming a victim of financial fraud

Maths and gambling

You could be gambling with your future not because you want to, but because you haven't thought the maths through

In praise of inefficiency

The pandemic has exposed efficiency and productivity as weak spots of modern businesses

Being rich, feeling poor

People seem to make financial decisions based not on how rich they are, but on how rich they think they are

The professor and his driver

Is your experience of investing borrowed, copied or lived?

Democracy at work

The reversal of the interest rate cut was the right decision, but not quite enough

The wisdom of Taleb, covid edition

A session with Nassim Nicholas Taleb's vigorously unconventional views on the Covid crisis is quite an intellectual adventure

Bill Gates, Nassim Taleb and your money

The idea that risk is something that can be easily calculated and managed is fundamentally wrong, even disastrous

Ignore the anti-SIP propaganda

Seeing too many articles with clickbait headlines about problems with SIP? Understand what's happening

Expecting the unexpected

There will be many surprises ahead, and many of them will be negative surprises

Not by technique alone

Following the right processes is important for investing success, but hardly enough

Much more than a reboot

Nowadays, the word 'reboot' is often used even for minor changes in products and services. The new Value Research Online is far more than that-now, and far into the future

Unreal GDP vs real data

Don't pay any attention to the GDP numbers that are being trotted out around the world

The gold problem

Gold is deeply embedded in our way of thinking about wealth and investment. This needs to change

Returns are a mystery

It's unfortunate that there are investors who don't fully understand the fundamental concept of returns

The Blackest Swan

The coronavirus disaster demonstrates something we should never forget - truly unpredictable negative shocks are almost a certainty

The retirement crisis

Post-retirement investment management and income generation is still the hardest problem in personal finance, but it needn't be