by Tony Byrne | Jul 17, 2019 | Tony Byrne's View
There is a concept known as behavioural finance which governs the way you make investment decisions. It’s really the combination of economics, psychology and sociology which provides explanations for why people make irrational investment decisions. Fortunately, there...
by Tony Byrne | Jul 10, 2019 | Tony Byrne's View
Warren Buffet, the world’s most successful investor and third richest man in the world, recently said that he expected returns from shares over the next 10 years to be very modest. When such an esteemed investor as this makes such a forecast you have to take it very...
by Tony Byrne | Jul 3, 2019 | Tony Byrne's View
Warren Buffet once said: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently”. His statement is particularly pertinent in respect of Neil Woodford, the one-time top flying fund manager for...
by Tony Byrne | Jun 26, 2019 | Tony Byrne's View
An acquaintance of mine recently said to me that investing in shares is different today. I quietly thought to myself: “I’ve heard that before”. Such comments are worrying, because people like this either have never experienced previous stock market dramas or haven’t...
by Tony Byrne | Jun 19, 2019 | Tony Byrne's View
Did you know there is a date known as Tax Freedom Day? It is a date given, by the Adam Smith Institute, which calculates the number of days the ‘average’ person would have to work just to pay off their taxes. In 2018 every penny the ‘average’ person earned up until...
