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We teach investing to busy professionals through a PROVEN VALUATION-LED framework to analyse businesses and build a disciplined portfolio
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Portfolio Construction — Start by Starting (opens the original)
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{Quick note 1: before diving in: I have included links below to a earlier articles that give further. This piece focuses simply on portfolio construction}(Quick note 2: for the purpose of this article, we imagine that we’re constructing a portfolio from scratch, we have £100k today, in cash, and have capacity to add £5k per quarter}This comes up a lot“Should I buy or sell X?”, “X has already gone up/down a lot—surely it must now reverse?”“Is now a good time to invest? There is an event - electio
Managing a Stock Portfolio Without the Noise: A Guide for Busy Professionals (opens the original)
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When I founded Valuation Based Investing, it was driven by two foundational beliefs.1. Valuations, and not narratives must drive decisions – know what it’s worth, then decide what you want to pay for it2. The framework is designed to suit time-strapped working professionals with demanding careers, busy family lives. Once the foundations are in place, we do not need to spend 40 hour weeks staring at brokerage terminals to manage the family portfolioRight now, the world feels louder than ever. B
The Potato Farmer, the Carrot Farmer and the Gold Miner (opens the original)
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This is not an article about predicting the gold price. I am not making a call on central bank buying, ETF flows, real interest rates or technical levels. Plenty of people do that already—and some will be right.The debasement trade is gathering steam. Many of us are aware of the headlines on fiscal deficits on most major economies - $40T and climbing, more spent on interest than defence, etc etc. I understand the renewed appeal of gold (and many have argued, crypto), yet I hope it does not becom
Part 2 - Why High Returns Are Not a Shortcut: From Personal Risk-Free Rate to Financial Competence (opens the original)
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In part 1 of this series, we met Current Account Chris, Deposit Account Daniel, Gilt-the-Long-Term George, and Credit Card Candy.The point was simple: the “risk-free rate” in a textbook is not the rate everyone automatically earns in real life. Seeing a long dated gilt yield 5%+ is not helpful unless you understand it, invest in and accept the trade-offs that comes with it (eg: liquidity).However, what matters to everyone is y
Why Your Personal Risk-Free Rate of Return Is Not the One in the Textbook (opens the original)
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Most investors have come across the term risk-free rate.It appears in valuation textbooks, DCF, CAPM, discounting cashflows, etc. The usual academic answer is some version of a government-bond yield: perhaps the 10-year Treasury, the 10-year gilt, or a longer-dated sovereign bond.At the time of writing, a 30-year UK gilt yields more than 5.7%, 30y US Treasuries going for 5.15%. On paper, that sounds attractive: lend money to the government, earn more than 5%, and call it risk-free.But pause for
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