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I recently finished reading Good To Great. Why some companies make the leap … and others don’t by US author/researcher Jim Collins.Admittedly, I haven’t been exactly...

Since launching Inside The Rope three years ago, David has been able to chat with some of the industry leaders in financial services. In this special episode of...

Is it safe to say it’s over? I think so. It’s possible the recovery has been too far, too fast. Markets could very easily fall from here. But the economy is already...

It was the absolute whipping boy of the crisis. Now it’s the superstar of the markets rebound. Is the AUD now a safe haven of the Coronavirus crisis? On the agenda, we...

“I have no way to value it and neither does Steve because they need to increase prices to have a sustainable (presumably smaller) business … I just see that y’all are...

"In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and...

Ever thought about if your investments are as ethical as they could be? In this week’s podcast interviewed one of the world’s most renowned ethicists, Peter Singer to...

In January 2017 Providence published a whitepaper on Long Term Returns. At the time we suggested that Long Term returns from a traditional balanced portfolio were...

Crucial Question: Is It 1995 or 2007?Before reading this week's update on the global macro and equities picture, investors are advised to add three new words to their...

When investors buy shares in a company, they have purchased the right to a portion of that company’s future earnings. Past earnings are largely irrelevant in...

Were we really so credulous? Did we really know so little about foreign food? 62 years ago today, Panorama aired one of the great April Fool’s jokes. The report showed...

We spend a lot of time thinking about the relationship between growth and value at Bailador. Here are some high-level numbers from two well-known companies that have...

Donald Rumsfeld famously called them ‘known-unknowns’ - things we sense are important but don’t fully understand and cannot predict. Bob Dylan put it well, too, when...

The assumption that Amazon would sweep away all retailers that stand before it resulted in many US retailers being sold down. This hysteria created some interesting...

Over the next ten days, I will review and post my top 10 investing books of all time - starting with number 10. I hope you enjoy the reviews and they provide you with...

“In the short run the market is a voting machine but in the long run it is a weighing machine.” Benjamin Graham The father of value investing, Benjamin Graham,...

A well-researched and dynamic stock watch list is the bedrock of a good investment strategy that delivers value over the long-term. This holds true for professional...

Most investors would be familiar with the sorts of returns a successful stock-picker might aim to produce. Often, a fund will have an explicit target of beating the...