No "brave old people in finance".
Risk management isn't sometimes about portfolio growth and diversification, but more about knowing when to avoid bad decisions with drastic outcomes.
The era of bullshitting is over
Companies and people need to wake up to reality and stop the proverbial fake it till you make it, "over-packaging" their products and services, and start getting real about talking about fundamentals and their numbers.
Stupid money is as stupid does
For what initial public offerings are worth, they essentially represent the final destination for all stupid money, the final equity takeout representing the finishing line for all early investors in the business.
"Un-investable"
Our lack of understanding in how different countries are being governed are rooted in bias, largely based on what we are familiar with and what we are not.
Numbers and the narrative
Without connecting the numbers to a story, projecting cash flows simply becomes an emotionless exercise of numbers.
Policy error?
If the central banks got it wrong on monetary policy, can we also assume that the valuation models that we have done and relied on for the last two decades are also flawed?
How much are you willing to lose?
A different perspective to looking at risk.
I am just a brick-layer.
“Rome wasn’t built in a day but they were laying bricks every hour.”
Learnings and learnings.
You'd think that people working in financial services will be more astute in terms of their judgement of public equities - what's undervalued or overvalued. But truth is: we know nothing about how public markets really work.
I suck at reading charts
To analyze a system of an infinitely large number of complex moving parts, we sometimes need to step back and look at the big picture...
The biggest mistake of herd mentality...
So few investors / punters do due diligence on the companies they invest in. Many people jump too quickly into the bandwagon because they...
Valuation and the velocity of information
In business valuation, the pricing estimates done by analysts can be thought of both right and wrong, until proven by the market.