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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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Dollar price averaging in retirement

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 2, 2023July 2, 2023
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

In good years, if not in all years, they retain a part of their profits and put them back in the business.

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The best performance is produced by a person and not by a committee

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on June 11, 2023February 7, 2024
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all

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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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The Equity Risk Premium and what to use it for

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 21, 2022August 21, 2022
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

On this basis it could be argued that, at that time, since expected returns were well below historic norms, prices were too high.

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The best number of stocks to own

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 19, 2022July 19, 2022
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful

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Fallacies around the truth of what drives the market

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on December 19, 2021December 20, 2021
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

The top-performing 2.4% of firms account for all of the $US 75.7 trillion in net global stock market wealth creation from 1990 to December 2020

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Investing expertise can be learned

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 25, 2021July 27, 2021
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

It is only by working at what you can’t do that you turn into the expert you want to become.

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There’s a time to hold ‘em and a time to fold ‘em.

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on May 23, 2021August 25, 2021
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

The investment principles around selling losers and holding winners are one of the most important and subtle topics in investing; laden with psychological pitfalls

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