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Category Archives: Investing
Gladwell (and Drucker) on Pensions
The Risk Poolhttps://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/08/21/gladwell-and-drucker-on-pensions/ by Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point and Blink): The most influential management theorist of the twentieth century was Peter Drucker, who, in 1950, wrote an extraordinarily prescient article for Harper’s entitled “The Mirage of Pensions.” … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Data, Economics, Investing, leadership, long term thinking, Management
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Improving the 401(k) System
401(k)s are a great retirement investment vehicle (for those in the USA). Since the introduction of 401(k)s they have proved very advantageous to those saving for their retirement. See our previous post on: Saving for Retirement. However, the experience thusfar … Continue reading
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Investing Update
The recent performance of some of the long term stock picks has not been good. Several continue to have pretty good results so far, including: Google, Toyota, Templeton Emerging Market Fund, Petro China. Several have had sharp declines recently including: … Continue reading
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The Future for Investors
I completed The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New by Jeremy Siegel today. It provides a great deal of analysis of what historical stock market returns for various strategies have … Continue reading
Employee Ownership
H.C. Miller workers to earn ownership [the broken link was removed] by Richard Ryman. I have always liked the idea of employee ownership. To me this can be a great help in creating a system where employees, owners, customers, suppliers … Continue reading
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Tagged Investing, jobs, Management, organization as a system
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Tesco: Lean Provision
Lean Provision Is Tesco’s Secret Weapon in Battle with Wal-Mart (annoyingly Yahoo has deleted that web page so I removed the link) (update again here is the LEI press release [the broken link was removed, The Lean Enterprise Institute doesn’t … Continue reading
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Financial Education
Federal Reserve System: economic and personal financial education [the broken link was removed] “Financial education is a critical component of a robust and effective financial marketplace but it is not a panacea. Clear disclosures, wise regulation and vigorous enforcement are … Continue reading
Invest for the Long Term
Invest Like a Simpleton [the broken link was removed] by Tim Beyers, fool.com: Ten years ago, Tom Gardner boldly picked 10 stocks to buy and hold for the next decade. … Even with a tough week in which Silicon Graphics … Continue reading
Energy Future
Interesting chart from: The Oil Age Poster [the broken link was removed] . There are all sorts of opinions on the future price of oil. My view is based in the capitalist/market model – I believe that if it becomes … Continue reading
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Why You Need a Roth IRA
Why You Need a Roth IRA [the broken link was removed] by Erin Burt: If a 25-year-old contributes $4,000 each year until she retires and makes an average annual return of 8% on her investment, she’ll have more than $1.1 … Continue reading
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