Category: Comment
Graham’s Investing Diary – Stocks get chopped in favour of home equity
The day finally arrived when I needed to raise cash for an upcoming house purchase. On Tuesday, I swung into action and chopped three companies ... Read More
2020 Outlook: Danger ahead
This week, the World Bank reduced the global growth outlook. The speed of recovery on the back of reduced trade tensions is turning out to ... Read More
2019 – The best of times, The worst of times
Happy New Year (or end of old year, depending on pixel time)! I was looking forward to writing this article and singing about what has ... Read More
Simon’s 2019 Year End Review – What a Year!
Whilst dominated by lots of negative news including political shenanigans (May out / Boris In), Brexit, and a string of high street businesses going to ... Read More
Diving in the Maldives – ESG & The Power of Incentives
I am coming to the end of my holidays, where I spent a week scuba diving on a boat around the Maldives and then a ... Read More
Increasing my Google investment $GOOGL
I've just increased my exposure to Google's parent company, Alphabet, Inc ($GOOGL), but not in the way you might imagine. As noted previously, I've been a ... Read More
The bank account: a surprisingly complicated financial instrument
This topic isn't related to any particular share, but I thought it might be worth a blog post nonetheless. It's a topic which most people, ... Read More
Making your own parachute: the merits of self-insurance
This article will be a little different to our usual material. I want to talk (in very broad terms) about whether more of us should ... Read More
IFRS 16 – a practical guide to lease accounting
Those of you who can't make it to Mello can still view the slides for my IFRS 16 talk, scheduled for later today. Indeed, I'm ... Read More
Come and see us at Mello!
Cube.Investments will be making an appearance at Mello London in Chiswick this year. It's 20 miles from Heathrow, in case you're wondering! Here's a link ... Read More
Graham’s Investing Diary (8 Nov 2019) – Into the breach #GAW
I've already written a Diary note this week, but here's another one. I want to let you know about my latest investment, and inform you ... Read More
Graham’s Investing Diary (4 Nov 2019) – Bricks and Mortar $TSLA $BRK
There has been a severe lack of trading in the portfolio since my last missive, but my portfolio has changed in a noteworthy way. A ... Read More
Goodwill to all persons
If you are thinking it is a little early to be talking about Christmas, then you are clearly not in the retail trade! But Lo, ... Read More
Risk management as a way of life
This is a great 5-minute clip by Whitney Tilson, reflecting on and summarising what he has learned about risk management in his investing career. During ... Read More
Shifting Shares (30 Sep 2019) – Hopping the pond $UBER $NFLX #SXX
The UK has plenty of shorting opportunities, but UK equities are not valued anywhere close to how Britain's colonial upstarts value theirs. Americans do love ... Read More
Patience is a virtue
Any value investor that has been around the block a few times will have no doubt trotted out this phrase a few times to justify ... Read More
Lessons from share-price falls in August #BUR #SHOE #IQE
I'm continuing my quest to study the factors which create the biggest monthly fallers on the market. These factors are hardly radical or even particularly ... Read More
Cube Podcast #18: Why People Love and Hate Monopolies
In this podcast, Andrew Latto of Fund Hunter and Graham chat about what they look for in shares. The discussion then moves on to funds ... Read More
Financial Statements Seminar – Last Chance!
With less than two weeks to go until my Financial Statements Seminar in London, I thought I would take the opportunity to remind readers before ... Read More
Creating a new “Study List” – Low yielders for capital gains
Every now and then I run a stock screen for new ideas, to refresh my ongoing research efforts. This week, I've been looking for profitable ... Read More