You should think of me as an "outsourced analyst":
• I provide institutional grade investment ideas that you won't find anywhere else
• You can bounce ideas with me anytime via DM or e-mail
If your portfolio is over $100,000 then the yearly price would be equivalent to <0.3% of the portfolio. With over 20 ideas per year, it should be easy to earn back the cost.
Here is an idea that I published before starting the service:
I've also started responding to reader questions about their portfolio holdings. So if you have a stock that you want me to take a look at, just let me know and I will spend 2 days on it (subject to a backlog).
If you have a private banker, he or she can also give you advice. But few of them are savvy investors. Usually they push structured products on you. And take huge cuts of any transaction (several %).
I think you're better off talking to an investor or an analyst...
Smart people these days build networks of intelligent individuals in particular niches: inflation experts, China tech stock experts, etc.
My niche is under-the-radar Asian value stocks.
Institutional research typically costs $20-100k/year. Some of it is very good.
But I think you will be able to bootstrap such research soon via Substacks. Identify clever individuals on Twitter and then subscribe to their Substacks. Let them become your personal advisors.
Here's a link to a 30-day free trial to my Substack Asian Century Stocks:
"Lei Jun, Chairman and Executive Director, that he recently donated approximately 616 million class B shares of the Company to two charitable organizations"
So many donations in China these days. Businessmen have suddenly become very charitable.
Nintendo's approach to product development is a key reason behind the company's success.
Here's the story of the man who developed it.
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Nintendo started in Kyoto in 1889 out as a producer of "flower cards" - playing cards used for gambling.
Japan had just allowed gambling within its borders and Nintendo's flower card business was thriving.
By the 1950s, Nintendo had already 100 workers employed at the factory.
But there was new competition. After the war, the Japanese turned to Pachinko machines as a new form of gambling and recreation. Like pinball machines, these captured an element of both skill and luck.
Key investment-related ideas from John Train's Money Masters of Our Time
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T. Rowe Price:
• Seek "fertile fields of growth" then hold stocks forever
• Early stage of growth most profitable / least risky
• Want superior R&D, lack of competition, immunity from regulation, low labour costs, >10% ROIC
• Red flags: new weak mgmt, saturation, falling ROIC
Warren Buffett:
• Key is business franchise: whether competitors can squeeze prices and profits
• Wants high ROIC, understandable, see profits in cash, can raise prices, simple to run, not targets of regulation, owner-oriented
• Best business = royalty on growth of others
In the Dotcom bubble, everybody went all in on telecom stocks. Few of them turned out to be particularly strong businesses.
Are we doing the same in this cycle?
The pitch for Alibaba during its IPO process was it dominating the market thanks to a 2-sided network effect.
While such network effects make it difficult to match Alibaba on SKU availability and price, other competitors have found niches in delivery speeds and quality control.
I'm convinced that these network effects play a smaller role as time goes by. It only takes a few botched up orders for you to become disillusioned with a service. I'm fed up with Alibaba's Lazada for that reason.