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Ethical Equities Returns
Big news -- Ethical Equities is Back!
After a four year hiatus spent building a market beating track record at Motley Fool Hidden Gems, I will now be moving all my stock market commentary to Ethical Equities, and refreshing the site. read more
Ethical Equities Performance Financial Year 2015
Well, in the spirit of accountability, here is my private portfolio performance for financial year 2015.
read moreUpdate on the Ethical Equities Micro Cap Healthcare Watchlist
Back in September last year I decided to run an experiment regarding a basket of microcap health stocks. I had a theory that a basket of small healthcare stocks would beat the market. Therefore, by selecting from within that basket, one could improve the chances of beating the market. My aim was to beat the ethical equities micro cap healthcare watchlist in my own portfolio, but I also wanted to see whether the watchlist itself would beat the market.
read moreEthical Investing, 2 Years On
My investing journey started in 2009, but I didn't really have a clue what I was doing at that stage, and I was essentially a mug punter taking random bets in between law lectures. We all start somewhere.
read moreNext Level
I've had this sitting in drafts for a while. I can see that the number of regular readers is declining since I temporarily signed off in the last newsletter, but I hope a few of you will enjoy this excerpt from an email I received a while back. I think it's interesting to hear what actually motivates people to invest ethically.
read more9 life lessons from Tim Minchin - Heavily Edited
This post is inspired by Tim Minchin's Occasional Address at the University of Western Australia...
read moreEthical Equities micro-cap health stock watchlist
Some time ago I was going to write a blog about micro-cap health stocks. I never ended up publishing because I was trying to accumulate (at slightly lower than market prices) some of the illiquid micro-caps on this list below.
read moreInvestment process: 11 questions I ask
1. Does the business have long-term tailwinds or headwinds?
read moreThe true measure of wealth is the capacity to love
"I've never seen a sad person on a jet ski."
While the lighthearted reply to the question, "Does money buy happiness?" got a laugh out of me and was clearly all in good fun, I'll admit it also got me thinking.
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