Reading Time: 3 minutesHow many ideas are you exposed to in a year? Dozens? Hundreds, maybe a thousand? but how many really stick once the presentation is closed or the call is over. In the year dominated by US exceptionalism, booming markets, interest rate cuts and no recession, here’s what really stuck for me: The Compound and Friends … More Ideas that stuck 2024
Reading Time: 6 minutesHow many ideas are you exposed to each year – dozens certainly. Hundreds? Maybe even thousands. But how many do you really remember once you’ve left the room or closed the phone? let alone a week or month later. But some ideas do stick. They burrow into your brain somehow and manage to take up … More Ideas that stuck 2023
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s all anyone’s talking about right now as the dust settles on the chancellor’s Mansion House speech… I want to try and challenge three of the accepted wisdoms here: – That the U.K. pensions system is a big and significant investment force – That private markets make for great investments and – That channeling U.K. … More Investing for Growth in the UK
Reading Time: 3 minutesHere’s a few of my top recent highlights for you, a few that are on the go, and a few I’m lining up for that summertime reading list. The Bond King (Mary Childs). Exhilarating, pacy and balanced romp through the weird and wonderful world of Bill Gross and PIMCO from the 70’s to the present … More So, what are we reading this summer?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWar, climate change, pandemics, inflation, rising interest rates First published in LCP’s investment magazine – VISTA Original version available at lcp.foleon.com The job of investing involves reckoning with a huge amount of uncertainty and intersecting trends while making good decisions, screening out noise and resisting the temptation to overreact. That is, of course, easier said … More Turning points in uncharted territory
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThank you all for following along during this most strangest of years! One that brought us meme-stonks, the meaning of transitory and more pledges, commitments and targets than you could shake a stick at. I’ve posted less articles than usual this year but I’ll put that down to some big events: Leo turning one and … More Most read of 2021
Reading Time: 4 minutesOk so look I know the world probably doesn’t need another article on this. Obviously you’d need to have been on Mars for the last week not to have seen the world lose their minds over the GameStop stock story, that became an iconic meme, that became a saga that turned into a real pop … More Stop. But should long-term investors care?
Reading Time: 3 minutesYour standard finance textbook gets it wrong, or at least doesn’t tell you the full story. Three investors, three different paths of return this year (orange, green, blue). But assuming they start and end at the same point (I know they don’t quite), who feels best? And why? Which is the best investment? Simple question … More Yes, the journey matters
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve often said that thoughtful disagreement is one of the most underrated skills. We know we should do it, but we don’t know how, and worse, we’re heavily wired against it through ego and confirmation bias. I listened to this great conversation between Ray Dalio and Reid Hoffman, which contained a ton of useful tips … More Practical tips for thoughtful disagreement
Reading Time: < 1 minuteQuite big news out last week on the future of RPI, in DB pensions-land, amid everything else that’s going on. I’ve seen a variety of conflicting takes on the announcement, but clearly has implications for DB schemes. Here is a helpful reminder of some of the recent background context on the long-running issues with RPI. … More RPI surprises
