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Investors are more anxious about the economy than at any time in recent memory – true or false

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 24, 2025July 28, 2025
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

He’s encouraging a kind of groupthink or social proofing. He tells us that everyone he talks to says there’s more reason for anxiety than in recent memory. He is inviting us to believe it is true.

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Investing in a permacrisis

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on December 27, 2022December 27, 2022
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

The prophets of doom have overlooked the all-important factor

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The inherently short-term nature of the investment management industry

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 28, 2022August 29, 2022
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

Market conditions are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion, and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission

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Investors can counter management short termism

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on February 14, 2021February 15, 2021
  • Part 6: The Hallmarks of Superb Businesses

63 per cent of respondents said the pressure to demonstrate short-term financial performance had increased over the last five years

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