Valuing the market - A first step beyond passive investing "Investments may be soundly made with either of two alternative intentions: (a) … [Read more...]
Chemring Group – Leveraging global leadership
Chemring is primarily a defence group that currently focuses on countermeasures, counter IED, pyrotechnics and munitions. These four … [Read more...]
Predictability, growth and price
One of the interesting things about investing is the almost infinite number of ways that you can tackle it. From indexing to stock picking, … [Read more...]
A quantitative model
The model that makes up about 80% of my stock picking process has undergone several minor adjustments, one following quickly after the … [Read more...]
Does value screening still work?
Over the years there have been many studies into how different investment strategies affect your potential returns over the long term. … [Read more...]
Adding ROE into the mix
Basing my company valuations on book value is nice and everything, and has a lot of historical and empirical support, but I’ve always had a … [Read more...]
Are you really smarter than a chimpanzee?
My current investing goal is to outperform an ETF tracking the FTSE 100 total return over any given five year period. However, after … [Read more...]
Building Asset Value
I thought I'd say a little something about how I decide to buy and sell companies, and what my rationale is behind each trade. There is some … [Read more...]
A value based asset allocation strategy – A minor update
This is just a minor update to my previous post about allocating assets to stocks depending on the current value of CAPE compared to its … [Read more...]