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Cliff Asness, Wall Street sharks and market inefficiency

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on September 8, 2024September 9, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Markets now exhibit far more casino-like behavior than they did when I was young. The casino now resides in many homes and daily tempts the occupants.

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Rise of passive investing good or bad for active investors?

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 25, 2024August 25, 2024
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

The stock market and individual stocks still seem capable of swinging from euphoria to fear, from fear to euphoria, from bull to bear and from bear to bull, as they have over stock market history.

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Why stocks outperform all other asset classes

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 21, 2024April 21, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

A major reason is that businesses retain earnings, with these going on to generate still more earnings–and dividends, too

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My investment performance and how I invest my money

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 7, 2024February 7, 2024
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

It is value investing pure and simple with a concentrated portfolio, but the companies must have really good growth prospects.

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Concentration risk and the Magnificent Seven

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on November 19, 2023November 19, 2023
  • Part 6: The Hallmarks of Superb Businesses

The best business to own is one that over an extended period can employ large amounts of incremental capital at very high rates of return

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Tapping into the wealth created by stock market investing

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 6, 2023August 6, 2023
  • Part 6: The Hallmarks of Superb Businesses

The vast majority of wealth creation comes from a reasonably sized cohort of successful companies. The trick is to identify these wonderful businesses.

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The market can be beaten

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 23, 2023February 4, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection than he devoted to the selection of a medium-price automobile

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An investor’s edge as the competition gets tougher

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 9, 2023July 9, 2023
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

I would say there’s been a great increase in the number people doing dumb things. And they do big, dumb things.

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How I invest my money

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 4, 2023January 7, 2024
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

What a value investor’s concentrated portfolio looks like.

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Active investing is an oxymoron

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on June 5, 2022June 5, 2022
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior

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