ON THE MONEY: Alan Steel says the sentiment swingometer points towards team performance, rather than individual players “The greatest truth about markets is it’s not what you think you know that matters. It’s what other people collectively think they know that counts” – Bill Blain “Explanations exist. They have existed for all time. There is […]
Why it pays to ignore the bubble boffins
ON THE MONEY: ALAN STEEL “I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope is admired by a large class of persons as a sage” John Stuart Mill, British Philosopher, 1866 “We have fallen upon evil times, politics is corrupt and our social fabric […]
Take care when you pass the investment baton
ON THE MONEYALAN STEEL I want to break free – Freddie Mercury Do you want to be a free man, or do you want to be a slaveDo you wanna wear these chains until you’re lying in your grave? – Van Morrison New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings – Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher (6th […]
What to do when the numbers don’t add up
ALAN STEEL has a message for experts who have a habit of producing data and dire warnings in equal measure “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane” – Marcus Aurelius (121 to 180 AD) “You should […]
It pays to get in the swing of the investment cycle
ON THE MONEY: ALAN STEEL “Nothing is as good or as bad as it seems” – Scott Galloway, Professor of Marketing, NYU “There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen” – Vladimir Ilyrich Lenin, Russian revolutionary Didn’t Vladimir call it spot on? Two weeks ago the world was heading yet again […]