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June 25, 2020

The Amateur Investor Ep.10: No Crystal Balls Here

In June of 2018, as part of some misguided attempt to see how far I could push myself, and inspired by Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker’s first ascent of Meru Peak, I signed myself up to an alpine mountaineering course. Hosted in New Zealand’s South Island, on Mt Cook, the course featured 5 days of avalanche training, snow craft, and...

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June 25, 2020

Quiet Contrarian. Ep 5: Lessons from Winners

This was a harder blog post to write, turns out, when you’re right you don’t really learn much. It doesn’t matter if your decision making was good or bad, the win covers all that up and your confirmation bias gets stronger. With respect to that I will try to reflect on some of my wins, and fully describe what I...

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June 22, 2020

Mocker Monday. 22 June.

Travel industry Good interview with the head of Flight Centre discussing how a company in one of the hardest hit sectors battened down the hatches. This also had some good insight into the expected recovery of the travel sector. ‘Survival was on the line’: Flight Centre’s near-death experience (Sydney Morning Herald) Coronavirus, the market, and the economy New fears of...

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June 18, 2020

Quiet Contrarian. Ep4: Lessons from Losses

Continuing on my review of past performance, I wanted to revisit a few of my winners and losers, and the key lessons I learned from them. This week I’ll start with my losses. Sunbridge Group Limited (SBB:ASX) – Sunbridge was a clothing retailer from China. By the books they were incredibly undervalued (from memory, I had their valuation at about...

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June 17, 2020

The Amateur Investor Ep. 9: Doing the Maths – PE ratios

Apologies for the late publish! This one was a bear to do the research on. Enjoy!

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June 15, 2020

Mocker Monday. 15 June.

2 more weeks to the AU EOFY. Hope everyone has an idea of what their gains and losses are this year. Not much shared by the Mockers this week. Nucleus wealth has released another video about the disconnect between the market and the underlying economy. Some interesting insights into the latest rally, how we seem to have seen a full...

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June 10, 2020

Lesson Learned: Commit to learning

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. Maya Angelou One of the joys of investing is that there is always something to learn; from strategies, to business models, from technology to psychology, there’s always something new to wrap your brain around. Even if you stick to your circle of competence, there...

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June 9, 2020

The Amateur Investor Ep. 8: Telescope

As a teenager, I went to a boarding school in Brisbane, which afforded me a range of experiences, especially during the term breaks, when the boarding house would shut and my father would pick me up to while away the time backpacking up and down the coasts, both Gold and Sunshine. A favourite activity of ours was going to Hervey...

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