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Benchmark Comparison – Version 1

February 5, 2010 By John Kingham

I've chosen the iShares FTSE 100 as my benchmark as it's about as near as you're going to get to holding the FTSE 100 directly. … [Read more...]

Holding Periods

January 24, 2010 By John Kingham

After reading a post on The Div-Net, I started to think about how I differ from dividend investors and why. The first point to make is that … [Read more...]

Dividend – Waterman Group

January 20, 2010 By John Kingham

On January 12th Waterman Group paid out a dividend of £125.92. As with Northamber, this will probably just sit in cash for now as it's … [Read more...]

Dividend – Northamber

January 20, 2010 By John Kingham

On January 12th Northamber paid out a dividend of £177.45. This will likely just sit in cash until I have enough to make a purchase … [Read more...]

Statistical Investing

January 17, 2010 By John Kingham

I recently read "Painting by Numbers - An Ode to Quan" by James Montier and Dresner Klienwort via a link from Richard Beddard to … [Read more...]

Purchased – Waterman Group

January 13, 2010 By John Kingham

I first bought Waterman on October 22nd 2009. I had recently sold Harvard International for a profit of £4,102.82 and needed somewhere to … [Read more...]

Backtesting of tactical asset allocation strategies

January 11, 2010 By John Kingham

I've long been fiddling around with various mechanical methods of adjusting an almost passive index investing stragety to improve the … [Read more...]

Ennstone – post trade analysis

January 11, 2010 By John Kingham

I'm going to record an analysis of each of the trades that I make so that I can learn from each trade. I'm sure that sometimes there … [Read more...]

Valuing Markets

January 8, 2010 By John Kingham

I'm a big fan of CAPE (cyclically adjusted price earnings) and Tobin's Q as tools for understanding expected future risk and returns from a … [Read more...]