Investing against emotion

11 02, 2020

RUGBY RULES FOR PROTECTING YOUR CAPITAL

2023-07-27T09:55:59+00:00 February 11th, 2020|ECONOMIC PULSE, NEWS|

Sometimes it helps to start by focusing on what something is not. Leaving your cash under the mattress is one of the surest ways to cause a permanent loss of capital. No, not necessarily due to burglary on your premises, but rather the simple facts of economics. If one works with a long-term average inflation [...]

11 02, 2020

LAYERS OF INVESTING – Where to begin?

2023-07-27T09:59:00+00:00 February 11th, 2020|ECONOMIC PULSE, NEWS|

The range of options available to investors can often be overwhelming. Where do you even begin? To answer this question it can be useful to break your investment decisions into three simplified layers: 1. The ‘why layer’ tries to establish exactly what your investment objectives are. It attempts to answer the question as to [...]

5 02, 2020

INVESTING AGAINST EMOTION

2023-07-27T10:00:15+00:00 February 5th, 2020|ECONOMIC PULSE, NEWS|

Reason is probably one of the biggest distinctions between humans and animals. It has given us the ability to learn from different circumstances and to adapt over time. These lessons sit deep in our subconscious minds and instinct / emotions /intuition allows us to react quickly without having to reason ourselves out of every situation, [...]