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Market (In)Efficiency and beating the market

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 25, 2026January 27, 2026
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Behavioral inefficiencies are likely the most enduring because human nature has not changed much over time and is unlikely to change much in the future.

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Active investing in today’s investment landscape

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on June 10, 2025June 10, 2025
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Most trading that is going on right now has nothing to do with value

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My thoughts on the Buffett Indicator – current Market Cap to GDP

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 23, 2025March 23, 2025
  • Part 5: Asset Management

The best cash flow measure is Warren Buffett’s Owner Earnings. If that is increasing faster than GDP, the fair value of companies will increase faster than GDP

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Owning an equal part of every business in town

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 16, 2025March 16, 2025
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

Buffett is right for an actively managed portfolio and Greenblatt is right for a passive portfolio

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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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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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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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DIY investors are not the patsies at the table

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 30, 2022February 1, 2022
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

The tech fund managers could only hold their noses and invest the money in whatever stock was available that fitted the description ‘tech stock’.

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Active investing is the only way to superior returns

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 25, 2020February 22, 2021
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

A small percent change in total returns achieved both before and after retirement can make a huge difference in your standard of living after retirement

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The rise of passive investing and opportunities for active investors

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 18, 2020April 26, 2021
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

The rise of passive investing and systematic investing may lead to greater stock market inefficiency. It will have little negative impact on active investors.

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