Category: General Investing

General Investing
Chris MacIntosh

Simple Not Easy

I haven’t been sick in over three years. Nothing, not a sniffle, not a cough – nada. Strong as an ox I tell my wife. And so, naturally, I am immune from anything dodgy. The terminator of sickness if you will. Except I wasn’t two weeks ago. God only knows

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General Investing
Chris MacIntosh

What Does Your Investment Portfolio Diet Look Like?

If eliminating carbs and sugars from your diet would help you shed that spare tyre, in oh…say two weeks, you’d be motivated to commit to saying nein to that pizza and cheesecake, right?  Wrong.  After five years, as many as 95% of dieters will be back to where they started,

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General Investing
Chris MacIntosh

Macro Hedge Funds: Creating The Right Mix of Assets

I have a friend. He’s a gold bug. He’s also…how do I say this? Eccentric! I went around to his house recently and he showed me this gold bar. He’s using it as a door stop. I mean it looks like what it is. A bloody gold brick. It’s a

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General Investing
Chris MacIntosh

Social Inequality – Eat The Rich. THIS is How We Get There

A popular story told is that inequality is a bad thing and brings social discontent. That’s the wrong way to look at it. Inequality itself isn’t the problem. In fact I’d say it’s necessary for society to progress. Let me explain. When we see our fellow man working hard and

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General Investing
Chris MacIntosh

Recency Bias: How Investors Are Going To Get Screwed – Again!

While indulging in a most delicious barbecued steak washed down by a lovely South African red a couple weeks ago a friend was telling me about a recent seminar he attended. As a senior executive at a Swiss private bank he regularly attends these things. The topic. “How to invest

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General Investing
Chris MacIntosh

What’s Your Timeframe, Bro?

My son’s a faster sprinter than me. That’s bloody depressing. He’s only a teenager for God’s sake. He’s only just clipped me after years of it being a non-contest. But now the little sods nudged ahead… only just, but what’s worse is that in a years time he’s going to

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General Investing
Chris MacIntosh

The Tick Is Clocking For Social Media Giants

Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter. That’s over 350,000 tweets a minute, and 500 million tweets each day, or around 200 billion tweets per year. It’s a lot. Turning to Facebook, we find the following: In Q2 2018, there were over 2.23 billion monthly active Facebook users

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Becoming A Mineral Mastermind

In the early 1930’s a group of somewhat crusty professors spent their Tuesday mornings mulling about at an unassuming pub on St. Giles Street in Oxford, England. In addition to the inevitable beer and breakfast, this weekly meetup was held with the intent of discussing literature. On its surface this

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