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My investment plan for 2021

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 3, 2021January 4, 2021
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Plan for the worst. Hope for the best. And don’t agonize.

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Understanding Ben Graham’s Principles of Operation

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 4, 2020November 12, 2020
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

The various Principles of Operation that follow are not things I have dreamed up. They are frequently quotes or exact formulations or wording from Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, John Templeton, Philip Fisher, Peter Lynch, John Neff, Maynard Keynes and others.

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The personal qualities successful investors need to cultivate

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on September 20, 2020September 20, 2020
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

What mattered most was confidence in one’s own judgment, from which would flow the Kiplingesque cool to keep one’s head ‘when all about you are losing theirs’

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Do quants with algorithms have an advantage over other investors?

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 2, 2020August 4, 2020
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

Math and algorithms will give precise answers. And therein lies the problem.

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Conservative investors win – conventional investors lose

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 19, 2020July 19, 2020
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally

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Thoughts on beating the market

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 5, 2020November 22, 2020
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

No investment decision should ever be motivated by trying to beat the market. The moment this impulse creeps in, the investor is liable to risk seeking behavior.

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