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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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Cliff Asness, Wall Street sharks and market inefficiency

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on September 8, 2024September 9, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Markets now exhibit far more casino-like behavior than they did when I was young. The casino now resides in many homes and daily tempts the occupants.

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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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The search for a better guide to stock values

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 2, 2022October 3, 2022
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

Can we improve on the accuracy of these estimates by obtaining estimates from, say, 22 leading investment banks and averaging them?

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The joy of contrarian investing

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on December 27, 2020December 27, 2020
  • Part 2: Human Foibles and Investment Decision Making

The moral courage to act ‘in opposition to the crowd’ when your judgement tells you are right

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