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QAV Light Weekly Update #89

Oct 23, 2023 | ,

Hel­lo QAV Light Brigade It’s Mon­day and this is my week­ly report. Wel­come to our new sub­scribers! The AORD had anoth­er dis­mal week. As I said to some­one this week, I think every­one is feel­ing the pain and I’m sure some are ques­tion­ing the whole idea of invest­ing. But…

QAV #642 — Is This Time Really Different?

QAV #642 — Is This Time Really Different?

Oct 18, 2023 | , ,

“This time it real­ly might be dif­fer­ent” says Marks; Port­fo­lio update by Mar­ket Cap; Pulled Pork on PRN;

In the Club edi­tion, we’re also talk­ing about: Gold is a buy; PGH 2BL exam­ple; Chuck Feeney died; Joe Aston’s final Rear Win­dow; Has TK found a max­i­mum size where a port­fo­lio stops get­ting ‘QAV like returns’?; Imag­ine the mar­kets were to the­o­ret­i­cal­ly close for 10 years…

QAV Weekly Update 2023-10-17

Oct 17, 2023 |

Hel­lo QAVvers It’s anoth­er Tues­day. The AORD was up for the week, but bare­ly.  Over the last five years, the AORD is up 19%.  For com­par­i­son, this was the pre­vi­ous five years, 2013–2018. That’s an increase of 25%.  Howard Marks sug­gests that, due to increasing/stable…

QAV Light Weekly Update #88

Oct 16, 2023 | ,

Hel­lo QAV Light Brigade It’s Mon­day and this is my week­ly report. Wel­come to our new sub­scribers! The AORD had anoth­er meh week. I know it can be demor­al­is­ing to watch our invest­ments go up and down more often than a yo-yo in the hands of a hyper­ac­tive tod­dler, but…

QAV #641 — Dumb Money

QAV #641 — Dumb Money

Oct 11, 2023 | , ,

The RBA holds rates; Israel Gaza and oil; Dumb Mon­ey v Wall Street; Joe Aston quits; HVN SD update; Red Octo­ber; Pulled Pork on SXE; Qual­i­ty Score vs QAV Score; How TK man­ages mar­ket down­turns when lever­aged; how TK plans to live off his port­fo­lio in retire­ment in down years; why was begin­ning of month cho­sen for josephines and not a rolling 30 day price; ‘val­ue trap’ tool; the per­for­mance of our per­son­al port­fo­lios for this finan­cial year vs the DP; per­for­mance of high v low ADT stocks.

QAV Weekly Update 2023-10-10

Oct 10, 2023 |

Hel­lo QAVvers It’s anoth­er Tues­day. A rough week! It’s been recov­er­ing for the last few days, but the six month pic­ture below puts it into per­spec­tive.   Let’s have a look at the portfolio.QAV PORTFOLIO REPORT The Dum­my Port­fo­lio is per­form­ing well against the…

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