🇻🇳 Vietnam is one of the best and fastest growing emerging markets I’ve ever seen.

The Vietnam Stock Exchange (VNX) is a unified stock exchange in Vietnam. There are two separate exchanges: the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HOSE) and the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX). The VNX was established in 2000 with the goal of creating a single, unified market for trading securities in Vietnam.

I’ve heard a lot of hype about Vietnam. It’s one of the fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia and one of the best emerging countries in the world. So, like anything, I went to go and check it out and see it for myself. I spent two months with my family traveling the country. One… Continue reading →

Saying NO is the best way to avoid horrible companies and leads to better results.

A sound investment process should include a robust idea-generation framework. Whether you use a variety of filtering and screening techniques, as we have discussed, or generate ideas from a "follow the leader" approach, many ideas will come your way.

👑 Penelope was the Queen of Saying NO. She was the wife of Odysseus, the Queen of Ithaca, and the daughter of Spartan king Icarious and Asterodia. Penelope is depicted in the cover image rejecting a man who has come bearing flowers. Despite more than a hundred attempts to lure her, Queen Penelope was known… Continue reading →

📉 Is this the start of the great rotation after Market Crash fears?

It's been quite a chaotic August after the recent minor market crash. Investors are in for a rollercoaster ride. Global markets are still unstable after a significant sell-off on Monday, which also affected the cryptocurrency markets, with Bitcoin dropping by 16.50% and Ethereum by 24.19% at one point on Monday, August 5th. Although there has been a slow recovery, it wasn't anything to indicate we are out of the red.

💥 Market Crash Monday…is this a temporary pullback? It’s been quite a chaotic August after the recent minor market crash. Investors are in for a rollercoaster ride. Global markets are still unstable after a significant sell-off on Monday, which also affected the cryptocurrency markets, with Bitcoin dropping by 16.50% and Ethereum by 24.19% at one… Continue reading →

💈How a simple haircut led me to explore more Investment Strategies.

There are many winning Investment Strategies that work for those who master them with consistency, discipline and keep an open mind | The Stoic Investors.

It’s amazing how much time is spent arguing about which investment strategies or styles are better in the investing universe. Like many of you, I’ve heard the long debates about value investing being better than growth, or small-caps being higher risk and therefore not better than large caps. Even long-only strategies are considered the only… Continue reading →