Have you ever played the game ‘guess how many sweets are in the jar’? Did you just come up with a wild guess or did you try to count as many sweets as you could see? Either way, you probably found out that your guess...
In the early 17th century, there was one commodity in high demand among the rich and the powerful in the Netherlands - tulips! Rich people from Amsterdam paid the most exorbitant prices for rare tulips. According to one account (1), in the 1620s, a tulip connoisseur...
2017 was another bumper year from the global capital markets, as stock markets in the UK, US and Europe produced double-digit returns. Indeed, since capital markets fell spectacularly in 2008, the main asset classes have experienced an incredible return. The chart below shows the value of...
This entertaining and informative video provides a simple summary of the stock market and six important lessons for a long-term investor. Going back to the Great Depression in the summer of 1932, investment journalist Robin Powell picks key lessons that many investors have failed to learn,...
Many of the investment books available these days are so fraught with unnecessary complexity and industry jargon, that many investors are either too confused or too intimidated to make wise investment decisions. There is an assumption that complex systems such as financial markets must require...