Category: Business

I write these posts for fun. Only a few, but you are a cherished few, read them. When there are comments I’m delighted  – they are usually much brainier than my post .  So what could possibly go wrong?

I hold a few shares in an oil exploration and production company operating in Latin America. It puzzled me why the region is known as Latin America.

I hope you won’t mind if I share some scams with you. If you haven’t come across them it may save you embarrassment and dosh.

  No doubt about it, going to Eton makes you grow up fast. Aged thirteen you choose what newspapers and magazines you want delivered, open a bank or, in my case, a Post Office account and pick a tailor.

For about seven years in the early 1990s I was a Name at Lloyd’s. It conferred privileges and obligations. Among the former, being able to use the Members’ Writing Room to sleep in at lunchtime. A tedious obligation was to write a cheque annually in my first few years to pay my losses.

I have been reflecting on my criteria for investing my savings and how they have changed over the years. To begin with I was a pure stock picker, choosing companies on the advice of friends, relations and a stockbroker. I then had a eureka moment when I realised that it would be more rational to… Continue reading Investment Themes