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How I invest my money

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 12, 2026January 12, 2026
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

We think the very term ‘value investing’ is redundant.

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Collaboration – with diverse views – leads to better investing insights

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on November 16, 2025December 7, 2025
  • Uncategorized

Ideas based crowd source project to improve Nuggets of Investing Wisdom for everyone

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How I invest my money

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 20, 2025April 20, 2025
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Our asset allocation has not changed in twenty-three years. It has been 100% allocated to common stocks. Prior to that, that is prior to the fall of 2002, we had been 100% in two-year government bonds for five years.

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How many stocks to own?

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 17, 2024March 17, 2024
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

One of the reasons I can have a concentrated portfolio is because I understand what I own.

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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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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 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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How I invest my money

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on May 9, 2021January 7, 2024
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

This approach has worked

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An overarching portfolio strategy

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 28, 2021March 29, 2021
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

In sports, in war and in the battle for investment survival it is helpful to distinguish between strategy and tactics.

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