Blog Articles
TINA
“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” There is no alternative (TINA) is an old phrase being used today by some as a reason for the highs the stock market has been experiencing. In this TINA market investors are buying stocks...
The Positive Psychology of Investing
Positive Psychology is the science of living a good life. For those of you who have just rolled your eyes, it doesn’t mean we must force ourselves to always think positively. And if it sounds like just another self help book you are right except this one is backed...
Running 26.2 Miles
This past weekend over 50,000 runners started the New York Marathon. Many of you have given the marathon a go or at least it’s crossed your mind even as a distant thought. Finishing a marathon is extremely difficult, but yet over 500,000 people in the US alone run...
Investment Advice for this Week
Watching the news, scrolling social media, talking to your adviser, hearing about hot stocks at dinner parties, not to mention the complexity of all the available investment products leaves even the most experienced economist and fund manager at a loss of what to...
Socially and Environmentally Responsible Investing
I’m often asked how to invest in socially and environmentally responsible companies. If I am an expert in anything as an investment adviser it should be this because it’s been my investing focus for the last seven years. But I’m not because if I’ve learned...
The Power of Placebo
The bain of big Pharma’s existence is the placebo effect. If your doctor prescribes you a medicine to feel better and unbeknownst to you it’s a sugar pill but you still get better, then you have experienced the placebo effect. It’s the bodies ability to make...
Patagonia – Company Spotlight
Patagonia, the clothing company from Ventura California I think is the benchmark for socially and environmentally responsible business. It’s founder Yvon Chouinard, was once heard saying that every-time he is faced with the choice of doing something for profit or...
The Beauty and Burden of Credit
The invention of credit is what really kicked capitalism into gear. And now our daily lives depend on credit, or debt which has become the more familiar term. Business exist and grow because they are able to borrow. Credit cards make it easy for us to buy stuff....
Beef is Back
Are you sometimes torn between a juicy burger and the possibility of colon cancer or heart disease, or maybe a little guilt over the killing of the animal? Making the rounds in the news this week is a new study that concludes that eating red meat might not be as...
The Magic of Marginal Gains
Last weekend saw the finish of a very exciting Tour de France. Although some of my friends say it’s like watching paint dry. But whatever your cycling watching opinion is there is no doubt that to win the Tour requires an incredible amount of training, teamwork and...
