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The Best Investor You’ve Never Heard Of
Click here to view the pdf version. For this month’s newsletter, I am reposting a Money Magazine article, originally published in 2000...
May 1, 201711 min read


Bells Don’t Ring at Market Turning Points
Click here to view the pdf version. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. – Miles...
Apr 1, 20175 min read


Howard Marks – Random Thoughts on the Identification of Investment Opportunities
Click here to view the pdf version. It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t...
Mar 1, 20175 min read


Step Back and Take a Deep Breath
Click here to view the pdf version. “You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying...
Feb 1, 20175 min read


The World Is Better Off Than You Think
Click here to view the pdf version. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is...
Jan 1, 20175 min read


The Wild Card Scenario
Click here to view the pdf version. “You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.” - Yogi Berra...
Dec 1, 20165 min read


The Value of Investment Advice
Click here to view the pdf version. “It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.” - Logan...
Nov 1, 20164 min read


Optimists Have Reality On Their Side
Click here to view the pdf version. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” - Walt Whitman Autumn...
Oct 1, 20164 min read


Don’t Lose
Click here to view the pdf version. “Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.” - Martina Navratilova...
Sep 1, 20165 min read


Less Is More
Click here to view the pdf version. “Sharing a common outcome with large numbers of fellow citizens creates a mutually reinforcing social...
Aug 1, 20165 min read


Markets Are Driven By Emotions
Click here to view the pdf version. “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change.” - Heraclitus I plan on keeping this monthly outlook...
Jul 1, 20164 min read


The Name Of The Game Is To Make Money
Click here to view pdf version. “Common sense is not so common.” – Voltaire Life as an independent investment manager can be quite lonely...
Jun 1, 20165 min read


Happiness and Market Returns
Click here to view the pdf version. “I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to...
May 1, 20165 min read


Rising Sun
Click here to view the pdf version. “Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think...
Apr 1, 20165 min read


Best Portfolio Insurance on the Market
Click here to view the pdf version. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” - Benjamin Franklin Insurance is a funny thing....
Mar 1, 20166 min read


Get Comfortable, It’s Going to Remain Bumpy
Click here to view the pdf version. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” - Albert Einstein In 1984, the...
Feb 1, 20166 min read


Forecasting and the New Year
Click here to view the pdf version. “We have two classes of forecasters: Those who don’t know and those who don’t know they don’t know.”...
Jan 1, 20164 min read


Violence, Underperformance and Bubbles
Click here to view the pdf version. “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” - Isaac Asimov The horrific and cowardly terrorist...
Dec 1, 20155 min read


November 2015
Click here to view the pdf version. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."- Mark...
Nov 1, 20157 min read


October 2015
Click here to view the pdf version. “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” – Yogi Berra Growing up I was never mistaken for an...
Oct 1, 20156 min read
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