#69 — Lockdown silver linings?
If life gives you lemons... Long time readers of these articles may be aware by now that one of the things that I try to do in life as an explicit philosophy, is to attempt to seek out and place my focus on "good news" rather than "...
#68 — The biggest investment risk you've never heard of...
A KEY missing piece of the investment puzzle... In my last piece, I explained how important risk-adjusted returns are in investment, as against returns alone. This is an idea that is poorly understood. Today I wanted to explain another concept which is arguably even less well known and even more ...
#67 — How can 7.5% be better than 75%?
For some time now I have wanted to address a really important subject head on: The importance of VOLATILITY ADJUSTED returns. If you have been following all things Plain English Finance for a while, you will know that we have our own investment fund – the VT PEF Global Multi Asset Fu...
#66 — The World is the Best it has Ever Been...
It's a "99%" world... I hear and read so much at the moment along the lines of “2020 is the worst year in history.” I think the fact that so many people feel this way is quite possibly THE biggest problem of our age – quite literally. I think it is incred...
#65 — "Work is better than whiskey..."
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey..." Thomas Edison The quote above is attributed to the inspirational American inventor, Thomas Edison. I would argue that Edison was very likely one of the single most important figures in modern history. Most famously, he invented the light-bulb ...
#64 — My new book is here - what's it for?
If you've been a subscriber for a while, you may have noticed that we have been radio-silent for a lot longer than usual in the last few weeks. The reason for this has been that the Plain English Finance team and I have been very busy getting my new book, &...
I write today to let you know that I will be giving a free webinar next Wednesday (13th May) at lunchtime (1200-1300 BST) as a guest of the Financial Services Club. Continuing my fine tradition of being broadly incapable of giving things sufficiently short names, the title of the presentation ...
I wanted to take a moment today to pen some of my thoughts about what is going on - as it relates to finance and investment specifically. To be clear - the fact that what follows is only concerned about the economy, financial markets and investment is not meant in ...
#61 — Two Finance Professors Explain Why our "Tortoise" is Winning
Today's article is a departure from the norm' in that it has been contributed by two guest authors. I am delighted and more than a little honoured to be able to share the following piece about the strategy that informs our Fund, written by Professors Andrew Clare and Steve Thomas o...
#60 — The Turmoil and the Tortoise
Yesterday, stock markets all over the world fell by more than 7% - the most since the 2008 financial crisis. Oil has fallen more than 30% since the end of last week and I haven't seen my trading terminal covered with this much red for more than ten years. Long term readers of ...
