May
31
2010
Mariusz Skonieczny has written the below post as a guest on my site. He’s a money manager and the author of Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market, which he has asked me to review …
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May
30
2010
Earlier this week, I bought $65,000 worth of Coca Cola shares at $50 per share, adding to the Coke shares that I bought in 2003 and 2009, for $38 and $45 respectively. Paying $50 per share represented a fair value to me, but my energetic work-out buddy asked me why…why did I buy Coca Cola? …
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May
29
2010
Harry sells $30,000 worth of bonds–then fully exploits someone else! Harry realizes that, in the stock market, there’s always a buyer for every seller. He sighs and wishes, in one sense, that it wasn’t true. For Harry to do so well, he has to take advantage of other people. For example, this week he sold …
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May
28
2010
If you’re Canadian, you’re probably familiar with Ian McGugan, the level-headed founding editor of MoneySense magazine. He’s the man who brought you the Canadian couch potato portfolio articles, which won him a Canadian National Magazine award ten years ago. He was also responsible for initiating its historical performance tracking. Much of what will be written …
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May
27
2010
Years ago I read a great book by Michael O’Higgins, titled Beating the DOW with Bonds: A High-Return, Low-Risk Strategy for Outperforming the Pros Even When Stocks Go South. It made a lot of sense, and anyone following O’Higgins’ advice would have made a lot of money since its publication in 1999. When it was published, …
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May
24
2010
When my brother watches hockey games and a player rips past a clueless defender with the puck, my brother yells out, “That guy completely undressed the defender”. It might come out with an expletive or two if he’s emotional about the game. The idea, of course, is that one player was completely outclassed by another—and …
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May
23
2010
There are loads of mutual funds that have done well for investors. We can’t ever know what they’re going to be ahead of time, but after the fact, we can applaud them for having skilled managers or dismiss their performances as lucky. Here’s my challenge to you. I believe that companies selling actively managed mutual …
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May
22
2010
That good-looking kid in your high school class was voted “most likely to succeed”. He always wore the latest fashions, had perfect hair, always said the right things to attract the girls who were interested in a pretty face, and he went on to get a degree in Finance, where he ended up running a …
Permanent link to this article: http://andrewhallam.com/2010/05/great-investors-are-odd/
I'm Andrew Hallam. Many people aren't comfortable talking about money. It's not usually a conversational dinner-time topic, and its principles are rarely taught in schools. My goal is to have a "conversation" about it here, on this blog. If you read something you find intriguing, please comment or ask your questions!
I am also the author of the book, Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned at School
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