Is It Better To Pay Rent Or Buy? (What Would Buffett Do?)
Charlie and I don’t know our cost of capital. It’s taught in business schools, but we’re skeptical. We just look to do the most intelligent
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How Long Do You Need to Own Stocks To Make Money?
Everyone understands that you need to own stocks over many years to make money. How long do you need to hold a broad portfolio of
Continue readingWhy Spinoffs Outperform
There are plenty of reasons why a company might choose to unload or otherwise separate itself from the fortunes of the business to be spun
Continue readingIs This The Holy Grail Of Investing?
What is the Holy Grail of investing? The Holy Grail is often used to describe a method to achieve eternal success or happiness, depending on
Continue readingHow To Find Multibaggers (Returns Several Times Costs)
A new research report called The Makings Of A MultiBagger has recently been frequently “retweeted” on Twitter. Three summer interns made the study at Alta Fox Capital
Continue readingHow To Get Rich From Stocks
Is it possible to get rich from stocks? If so, how can you do it? It’s possible, of course, to get rich from stocks, given
Continue readingWhy Shorting Is Difficult (Shorting Explained)
Recently the short squeeze in Gamestop and some other stocks have attracted a lot of media attention. Of course, the action is sheer speculation and
Continue readingAn Investment Checklist Example (Why You Should Have A Checklist)
No matter your time horizon or investment style, you should have an investment checklist. The bare minimum is a mental checklist, but preferably it should
Continue readingWhy Stock Splits Are Bad (In The Long-Run)
Stock splits are touted as good by the mainstream investment community. Nevertheless, Warren Buffet has said that stock splits are meaningless and refused to split
Continue readingWhy You Need An Investment Checklist
It’s weird how a little tick on a notepad, or even just in your head, can give you assurance and better results without even increasing
Continue readingCan Foreigners Open A US Investment Account?
The US stock market is about 50% of the world’s stock market capitalization. If you want a diversified stock portfolio it’s pretty natural to include
Continue readingWhy Stock Picking Is So Difficult
Stock picking is difficult because only a small minority of the stocks contribute to the majority of the gains. It’s skewed to only a few
Continue readingWhy It Is Important To Avoid Investment Mistakes (Remove Unforced Errors)
The good is mostly in the absence of the bad. – Old proverb, mentioned in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile. Why is it important to avoid
Continue readingThe Best Seasonal Period In The Stock Market
Some weeks ago I published an article looking at the worst month in the stock market: September. Today, 29th of September, as September is coming
Continue readingAre Interactive Brokers and Degiro Safe?
In Street Name Your capital is at risk when you are investing in equity markets, but I assume very few consider the broker as a
Continue readingSome Thoughts On Estateguru (Review)
Introduction and summary: I have invested in Estateguru since 2016 and this review shares my thoughts and experiences as a lender and investor on their
Continue readingSeptember Is The Worst Month For Stocks
Yesterday, the 3rd of September 2020, witnessed a pretty big drop in the stock market with Nasdaq leading the decline with a drop of 5.07%.
Continue readingWhisky Investment – Cask Is King
Introduction and summary Alcohol has for thousands of years been a vital part of human culture (whether you like it or not). Whisky though, a
Continue readingHow To Hedge Against Tail Risk
Tail risk is a form of portfolio risk that arises when the possibility that an investment will move more than three standard deviations from the
Continue readingHow Did The All Weather Portfolio Perform During Covid-19?
This week I came across this blogpost by Nick Maggiulli about The All Weather Portfolio. What is The All Weather Portfolio? Maggiuli’s blog post is
Continue readingWhy Tobacco Stocks Outperform
Some months ago I wrote an article about the historical performance of so-called “sin stocks”. Tobacco companies have performed the best in the US, and
Continue readingWhy We Can Expect Lower Returns Over The Next Decade
2010-2020 produced better returns than the historical averages: From the start of 2010 until today, 27th of July 2020, S&P 500 returned 250% (dividends reinvested),
Continue readingExpected Returns In A Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) Environment – Which Asset Class Is Best
The last decade has produced fantastic returns in most global asset classes (commodities excluded), helped by enormous interventions by central banks. Can we expect similar
Continue readingShould You Invest In Stocks Or Real Estate (Or Both)?
Most people invest in real estate, perhaps quite logically since this is a very easy business model to understand. Equity (stocks) is perceived as riskier
Continue readingThe Importance Of Diversification
Harry Markowitz won the Nobel Prize in 1990 for his work in showing mathematically how you can both reduce risk and create better returns by
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