Remember these rules …. Warren Buffett famously said: Rule 1: Never Lose Money Rule 2: Never Forget Rule 1 This week, I was reminded of that by an investor who had just incurred a 100% loss. This was in a ‘FX bot’ trading scheme which advertised...
St James’s Place: A Lesson in Failure I recently did a podcast & video on how tracker funds consistently beat more expensive branded active funds – like that of St James’s Place (SJP) – links below. SJP sums up the failure of active funds...
Rate Cuts and Stocks … Yesterday was a historic day in the investment world. Jerome Powell, head of the US central bank, announced: “The time has come” … a moment investors around the world had waited a long time for. This was a clear signal...
Two weeks ago, the market experienced a bout of turbulence (see chart below). Early August turbulence … Global equity ETF in 2024: up to 16th August It now seems like a non-event but the media and headlines were sensationalist, as you’d expect. That...
You might have noticed an election is imminent. The outcome looks pretty certain but the challenges for any party are the same. And the policy scope is severely limited by our public finances. All parties want to fix things but in reality there’s a massive...
