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 […]
One way or another the gloomsters will be trumped
On the Money Market pessimists rarely have a good election, writes ALAN STEEL We’re being told by all and sundry that the US Election is unprecedented because of the bitterness of the two sides. In addition, investment house UBS reports that almost two-thirds of US high net worth investors (with in excess of $1 million […]
If it wasn’t for bad news, there’d be no news at all…
On the Money A constant flow of negative news is undermining long-held faith in strategic investment, writes ALAN STEEL I felt it only right to share an obituary that has come to my attention… Long-Term Thinking 1800-2020 Long-Term Thinking died last week. His last true friends, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and Peter Lynch, were by […]