The Rise And Fall Of Yahoo
The numbers in this are staggering as are the number of missed opportunities. More here – Visual Capitalist.
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Why Inexperienced Investors Do Not Learn
Why Inexperienced Investors Do Not Learn: They Do Not Know Their Past Portfolio Performance from Trading Game Pty Ltd
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Starting Dates
The post I did just now on luck got me thinking about the role of luck in trading – specifically the luck of your starting date. This ties in with a bit of playing around with annualised returns I have been doing in markets that have been rubbish. One of the issues with looking at…
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Luck
This is a photo of Jimmy Nicol sitting by himself at Essendon airport on June 15 1964. For those who are not up with their music history Nicol sat in for Ringo Starr for eight concerts whilst Starr was ill with tonsillitis. Apparently he played the drums as well as Starr – the only thing…
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Get Off Ya Bum
A new study of over 1 million people finds that doing at least one hour of physical activity per day, such as brisk walking or cycling for pleasure, may eliminate the increased risk of death associated with sitting for 8h a day. Physical inactivity is linked to an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and…
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ARE CEOS PAID FOR PERFORMANCE?
The quick answer from the paper embedded below is no. The executive summary is very enlightening in that it states – Has CEO pay reflected long-term stock performance? In a word, “no.” Companies that awarded their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) higher equity incentives had below-median returns based on a sample of 429 large-cap U.S. companies…
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