Value for money? I think we have the same thoughts – John Roe.
Sorry to use an Aldi packet – it doesn’t quite make the grade for the best breed of coffee drinkers , but this is what I’m drinking today!
Main factors to be considered by Tapper-Eastwood purchasing team
- Price – for comparables – Aldi is cheapest
- Information – this is from Columbia and it is smooth, tastes of caramel and is dark.
- Strength – it is strength 3 out of 8 (I think)
I agree with you , this is not telling me what kind of caffeine buzz I get – it should. Going back to drug-using student days I had much the same problem and for much of the time in between I used Red Bull.
Now on to the pension comparison. I know a lot about what you do as you have managed my money; I think I made a good decision f and you have invested in my company – AgeWage – which I am endeavouring to make a good decision so I can have a long and easy retirement.
Whether it be coffee or fund management I want to know what I’m buying , what it is aiming to do and what it’s costing me!
On that last point, I save a fortune by drinking my coffee at home and buying through Aldi, I suspect I feel the same way about fund management – except I can substitute workplace for home!
John Roe
John is not the first to draw an analogy between coffee and investing, but interesting all
the same.
http://www.income.com.sg/blog/how-investing-is-like-having-a-nice-cup-of-coffee
thetaoofwealth.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/the-coffee-can-portfolio.pdf
and a few others.
On medical advice I now only drink decaffeinated, but for those still able to drink both versions, focussing on intensity level numbers clearly isn’t the answer.
I suggest it’s really all about the bean, with Robusta representing real, active management, and Arabica (or the rarer Liberica) more for passive management. Although the beans are often blended.
And you’d expect someone with my career background to say there’s no accounting for taste!