Psych 103 –
Hard to fire yourself
Today’s post is another roundup of interesting psychlogical facts that I have come across recently and which have at least some bearing on the world of investment. Welcome to Psych 103....
Monthly Archive: January 2015
Psych 103 –
Money for Life – Financial Health Check
This post is the first in a series describing the basics of personal finance – the things that you need to do before you start investing. Life Stages Life can...
Piggyback Portfolio 3 – JIC (John Rosier)
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Weekly Roundup, 26th January 2015
We begin our Weekly Roundup as usual in the FT, with Jonathan Eley. Don’t buy IPOs This week’s “chart that tells a story” really does what it says on the...
Growth Stocks Investor Forum, 21st Jan 2015
I haven’t invested in growth stocks for a decade, having got by since then with sensible asset allocation and directing new funds to passive vehicles. But one of my investing...
Psych 102 – Investor Biases and how to fix them
This is the second post in a series on Psychology in Investment. Today we’re going to look at some of the investor biases that can affect our behaviour, and hence our...
Weekly Roundup, 20th January 2015
As usual, we begin our weekly roundup in the FT. FX Turbulence Paul Murphy and Judith Evans1 both wrote about the fallout from the sudden removal of the three-year-old Swiss...
Piggyback Portfolio 2 – Selling Rules
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Piggyback Portfolio – steal from the best
Piggyback Portfolio – we attempt to stand on the shoulders of investing giants by screening their public portfolios for stock ideas.
Annuities again – rate of return
Regular readers will know already that I have a thing about annuities – I don’t like them. A brief history of pensions When I started work back in the 1980s...
Weekly Roundup, 13th January 2015
We begin the weekly roundup with the FT round table. FT Round Table – themes for 2015 The FT got a panel of pundits together to discuss 2015. As well...
Social Trading – an experiment
I’m not an active trader at the moment, and haven’t been for a few years. One of my resolutions for 2015 is to get back into it, but I’m going...
Psych 101 –
Psychology in Investment
Psych 101 (psychology in investment): marshmallows, character, transaction utility, losing your marbles, nudging, transparent wealth
Weekly Roundup, 6th January 2015
We begin our weekly roundup as usual in the FT. P2P developments Judith Evans reported that Zopa plan to target the retirement market with an annuity replacement product based on...
