From shares to lottery tickets – the key to gauging the value of anything

‘Expected value’ is the notion of trying to assess the value of anything with an uncertain monetary worth – be

May 24, 2019

The poker player teaching investors to learn to accept uncertainty as a fact of life

Annie Duke is an American professional poker player turned business consultant. Her 2018 book Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions

March 13, 2019

How climate change claimed its first corporate casualty and the lesson for income investors

The last few decades have seen the perception gain ground in markets that a combination of cash generation and state

March 8, 2019

A lesson for investors from the true life of Carlos Ghosn

Investors’ fondness for a good story is a theme we have often touched upon, here on The Value Perspective –

February 22, 2019

Why investors should beware increasingly unforgiving debt markets

Last year may have been a tricky one for US markets and investors but it was less so for the

February 20, 2019

'Thinking Fast and Slow': Two big lessons for investors

On The Value Perspective blog, we aim to extol the merits of value investing, the art of buying shares that

July 27, 2018

Doubts about 'value investing' have returned to their pre-dotcom crash high

Is legendary investor Warren Buffett losing his golden touch? On our Value Perspective investment blog, we would never dream of

December 18, 2017

Is it still possible to find value in retail stocks?

With the wider market so clearly out-of-love with the retail sector in general, it should come as no surprise that

August 23, 2017

Amazon: Is this the end for 'old-school' retailers?

If you are a regular reader of the financial press, you could be forgiven for thinking some kind of corporate

August 22, 2017

Is South Korea still an investment ‘value trap’?

‘Value trap’ is a term used by investors to describe an asset that appears to have been under-priced by the

June 23, 2017