compounding

Want an added reason to go back and watch Seinfeld? I bet you never thought that reason might be to find lessons on investing. Think again.

The power of compounding

In January of this year, after bouncing around for a few months, the ASX200 took a sharp and sizeable leg down. It was to be the first of numerous heavy sell offs in...

Firstly, this piece falls into the ‘this seems impossible’ category. Just warning you before you dismiss the data or start throwing insults at the author. Secondly,...

Wouldn’t you love to buy up big just as the market bottoms out? Only to sell later at the peak and make a massive profit. While investors used to fear falling...

Romano Sala Tenna, portfolio manager of the Katana Australian Equity Fund, is currently sitting on a lot of cash. And while he usually holds anywhere between 55 to...

Companies with proven track records of delivering high returns on equity are sought after. And rightly so. Compounding gives exponential returns and is the holy...

“Necessity is the mother of invention” is a timeless proverb that originated thousands of years ago in ancient Greece by the philosopher Plato. Yet it remains...

Morgan Housel, in his book ‘The Psychology of Money’, used a nice thought experiment on Warren Buffett to demonstrate the tremendous impact time has on creating...

A sense of needing to hit the ball out of the park to keep growing their wealth is a dominant theme I’ve observed in my many discussions with family offices and high...

In times of extreme market volatility, it can be useful to refer back to the prominent former mutual fund manager Peter Lynch, who observed that the secret to making...

At AIM, one of our favourite pieces of wisdom from Charlie Munger is his so-called first rule of compounding: “never interrupt it unnecessarily.” Would you get out...

I have two types of friends when it comes to investing. One half lob their fortnightly paychecks into Tesla call options, crypto and speccy mining stocks. The other...

It was Albert Einstein who reportedly described compound interest as "the eighth wonder of the world", dubbing the process the universe's most powerful force. Whether...

One thing that has been drilled into me by one particular family office since I started MP Group is that the path to real wealth is to acquire and hold...

At the end of my last piece "For want of a coffee can, we left $7million on the table” which covered the story of Equities and Freeholds Limited (EQF), I suggested EQF...

Every so often, you find a story in a newspaper about a frugal living individual who had a modest paying job throughout their life, who everyone in their community...

The concept of compounding may be boring but Bruno Paulson, Portfolio Manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, believes more investors should be focused on the...

In the 13th century, the writer Ibn Khallikan records the story King Shirham, so enamoured of the game of chess he sought to reward its inventor, Grand Vizier Sissa...

It is often the ‘old-school’ print advertising that draws me in. This week, the newsagents are at it again, spruiking lotto tickets for the Powerball: “$100 MILLION...