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Is it worth having an intellectual education- or is work the best university

I spent a good part of a morning last week in the FT, talking with journalists about pensions but also about the predicament the children of parents have, once they’ve graduated. It doesn’t surprise me that the paper bemoans the … Continue reading

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A map of the known pension world?

  As far as I know, the poet and mystic never went to America, so when he coos to his mistress O my America! my new-found-land, My kingdom, safeliest when with one man mann’d, My Mine of precious stones, My … Continue reading

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“Purity” in passive investment management

Investing is hard. There are no shortcuts. Markets are generally efficient and when they aren’t there are plenty of people digging up the value ahead of you. My  anti – view is that “winning” investment strategies have negative capability. Negative capability is … Continue reading

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