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Managing Wealth Effectively
Equities - Creating your Own Index
Citywire - How BLU is doing away with predictions
Alternative Investments Explained
Birds
Why travelling can teach you a lot about the markets. We were halfway to London when the captain gave an update from the flightdeck....
Christian Armbruester
Jul 4, 20222 min read
Casino
Why we all need Justin Bieber to help us beat the markets. Everybody thinks they are better than average. Why else try anything? So, it...
Christian Armbruester
Aug 23, 20212 min read
Money
Why it’s a rich man’s world. Money, it’s a drag. That’s what Pink Floyd told us, so it must be true. We want money, we need money, and we...
Christian Armbruester
Jul 19, 20212 min read
Thinking
Why we should always prepare for the worst when it comes to making decisions. Clearly, we all have regrets. The words we wish we hadn’t...
Christian Armbruester
Jun 14, 20212 min read
Football, Cappuccinos and Riots
Why the rage of the global protests is within all of us. It was a beautiful sunny morning and like every Saturday, I took my son to play...
Christian Armbruester
Jun 8, 20203 min read
Stehaufmännchen
In a former life, I was seeking ways to relieve stress from work and improve my fitness, so a friend recommended I give kick-boxing a...
Christian Armbruester
Dec 16, 20192 min read
Unbeaten
We were top of the table with a full haul of points and it wasn’t even close. It was 1982, we were all but 12 years old and the title of...
Christian Armbruester
Dec 2, 20192 min read
On-Piste
We have written several posts on investment themes recently, much to do with all the many happenings in the financial markets and...
Christian Armbruester
Oct 28, 20192 min read
Dumbing Down
Watching what is going on in the world today, I am reminded of the movie Idiocracy (2006) and its foreboding glimpse into our future...
Christian Armbruester
May 7, 20192 min read
And Then There Was You
When something bad happens, it is seldomly treated as a blessing at the time. And so, our story begins in the very nucleus of the worst...
Christian Armbruester
Sep 17, 20183 min read
Living on Autopilot
If there is one statistic that I can’t get out of my head, it is that as much as 99% of human action is run by the subconscious. This...
Christian Armbruester
Aug 13, 20182 min read
Family Wealth: Part 2 - The View From The 4th Generation
“We do things the way we do them, because we have always done them this way”, may very well be the most expensive words in the history of...
tomtardif23
Jun 4, 20182 min read
Family Wealth: Part 1 - The Holy Trinity
Everyone knows the statistics: the first generation builds it, the second generation manages it, and the third generation loses it. In...
Christian Armbruester
May 14, 20183 min read
The Entitled Generation
As part of our series of highlighting the main behavioural risks, we start with (1) The Entitled Generation. Please see our previous blog...
tomtardif23
Dec 18, 20172 min read
An Introduction to Behavioural Risks
Let's assume your world is perfect: you have got nothing to worry about and more money than you can spend. What would you do then? Would...
tomtardif23
Sep 20, 20172 min read
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