contrarian

Do investors in American – and, by implication, global – markets receive higher returns when Democrats occupy the White House? Over the past few months, several...

One way to beat the crowd is by betting against it. It's a strategy known as contrarian investing and it involves buying stocks out of favour with the broader market,...

Catching a falling knife is usually a bad idea. Get it even slightly wrong and you’ll probably lose a finger or two. Don’t try and catch a falling knife is a warning...

Legendary investor Peter Lynch coined the term ‘Diworsification’ - making your risk-return profile worse through diversification - and famously ran a concentrated...

Increased uncertainty surrounding global trade and economic growth appears to have weakened market sentiment. Volatility has increased significantly (but most likely...

Contrarians can be a lot like teenagers: they think they’re all different but end up looking the same. This however, is not true of this week’s guest, Tim Hillier from...

There are three factors that need to be present when we consider an investment in a resource company: low commodity prices, a declining supply, and poor sentiment. On...

As the old saying goes; “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. And nowhere is this truer than the sometimes-scary world of deep value and contrarian investing....

The first thing you learn about being contrarian is that humans don't normally like to act this way. As the cartoon suggests, we're a social animal. We like to stick...

Uranium stocks have been quietly gaining in recent months, however, we expect materially more from the sector as it continues to rationalise in the medium-term. To put...