You buy a stock at $30 or a piece of property for $300k.

The stock goes down to $26.5 or your property trades at $265k so you remind yourself next time to be more patient.

Next time comes around, and you wait for prices to fall further, but they never do.

Opportunity missed.
This time, you remind yourself that you should not wait so long again, because too much patience has its price.

Eventually, another correction in asset prices comes around. Instead of patiently waiting too long, you decide after a certain point, it's time to buy.

But prices...
...keep sinking lower & lower after your purchase.

And then, a correction turns into a full-blown crash!

Prices decline so much further than you ever envisioned —not that you did any case scenario analysis anyway (because it's easier to act on hot trends & recent tips).
You swear on your (un)born children that you've learned the lessons & fallacies.

The next time around you will wait out the panic selling. You will wait for that final capitulation.

And then the bull market artificially controlled by central bankers comes around and...
...despite being a seasoned investor with plenty of experience & patience (by this point),

your prudence & discipline is not rewarded while all of those around you make fast money by buying "any-old-thing" & are rewarded beyond belief, despite ignorance & lack of experience.
You watch this madness go on, as weeks turn to months & months to years.

Eventually, after many years pass, you cannot take it anymore, you throw in the towel & join the speculative party.

What a great way to invest. So who is in charge of decision making? You or your emotions?
p.s.

What happens after you join the speculative party?

Does one finally arrive into the promised land?

😂

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15 Dec
On real estate risks.

Real estate is one of the least volatile and probably safest asset classes.

It is incredibly hard to have a permanent loss of capital — until you add leverage.

Because it is deemed safe, certain countries even allow players to over-leverage and…
…allow cross collateralization loans. This creates very high probability something will break eventually (fragility) as it did in 1990 & 2008.

It is a classic Peltzman Effect in play, where people engage in high-risk behaviours because it’s deemed that the underlying is safe.
Ironically, the risks don’t happen very often which create a feedback loop of poor decisions and over-leveraging.

Positive outcomes without evidence to the contrary encourage even more risk taking, until the final judgement day (downturns happen every 12-15 years: 1990 & 2008).
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7 Dec
When it comes to investing, I focus on several things (not too many, but not only one) and I try to do them with great effort.

Some would say that is playing the game of a specialised generalist.

“Specialisation is for insects.”

— Robert A. Heinlein
Why do I like specialising in a few areas over concentrating in just one?

You want to have optionality & diversification for long term survival.

It is important to be diversified incase your industry blows up like tech in 2000, banking in 2008, mining in 2012 or energy in 2020.
Here is a quick list of several asset class often found in our portfolios:

• public stocks & ETFs
• RE multifamily value adds
• luxury residential real estate
• RE development financing
• litigation funding
• alternative funds (PE, VC, private credit, hedge funds, etc)
Read 4 tweets
28 Nov
Great article to read.

"Pity the poor saps who piled into shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. when it was a $750 billion behemoth and the sky still appeared to be the limit."

washingtonpost.com/business/aliba…
The decision-making question of when to pull the trigger — also known as timing — is one of the most important investing skills.

What has helped me is deliberate patience, preserving optionality, understanding the history of business cycles & behavioral economics (sentiment).
With benefit of hindsight, it looks far wiser to have waited on buying $BABA with an average entry in $140s (my current position) vs someone holding at $200 or even $250.

Patience: waiting for the opportunity to come to you (price & valuation) instead of you chasing it. Image
Read 4 tweets
17 Nov
There is no housing crisis — it’s a false narrative.

Shortages are a temporary problem created by artificial monetary policy not witnessed in centuries.

When the cheap money punch bowl is taken away, demand will collapse.

Oversupply will remain — the mortal enemy of price.
Such false narratives are common near the peak of every great price run-up and bubble throughout history.

Don’t look for real estate specialists to justify fundamentals. They often suffer from a confirmation bias & availability bias within their echo chamber.
When opposite evidence is presented — often by outsiders who aren’t part of the tribe — is swiftly rejected.

Semmelweis reflex is a metaphor for a reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence, knowledge, or well thought out opinions because it contradicts established norms.
Read 9 tweets
10 Nov
Apple iPad in 1992 was called Apple Newton. It failed as the timing was wrong, despite being a fantastic idea.

In similar fashion, asset allocators and private investors need to think way more about timing, and focus way less on narratives and “fundamental reasoning.” Image
Simplified example: “ABC is a great investment.”

Real estate was a great investment in 2012, but an awful one in 2006.

Gold was a great investment in 2001, but an awful one in 2011.

Tech stocks were a great investment in 1990, but an awful one in 2000.

Timing really matters.
How many consensus ideas and popular investment opportunities today will turn out to be money losing propositions over the next 5 to 10 years?

And how many depressed, disliked and under-owned investments today, will turn out to be home run winners in by the end of 2020s?
Read 4 tweets
24 Oct
Great thread on all of the simple, yet painful things, that can go wrong with a luxury real estate project.

Continued…
I’ve tweeted this many times, but it doesn’t hurt repeating. When executing our luxury projects:

• we hardly ever use debt and if we do it would be well below 50% LTC

• we don’t use outside investors but our own permanent capital which has long term patience & staying power
• we demand a margin of safety (e.g. meaningful discount at entry) and we’d rather have a missed opportunity than to “pay up for quality” because paying up will hurt you in the luxury game

*unlike GPs that buy at any valuations chasing fees & promote our only upside is profit*
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