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Investment Philosophy Personal Finance 

Don’t Think About Personal Finance in Isolation

24/07/202224/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Big picture, Hedge, Long-term, Portfolio Construction, Return

Personal finance is complex. This means that reductionism is dangerous – don’t think of personal finance components in isolation in time or space.

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Investment Philosophy 

Why I’m Against Optimisation

03/04/202204/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Portfolio Construction, Principles, Return, Statistical Inference

Optimisation is stupid. Trying to build the max-return portfolio, taking on debt, and building the “perfect” personal finance structure are foolish endeavours.

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Investment Philosophy Personal Finance 

What’s the Point of Investing?

30/08/202104/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Consumption, Inter-temporal, Interest Rates

What’s the benefit of investing? Money is time-discounted but happiness is not. So you can invest to get more happiness later.

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Investment Philosophy 

Why We Don’t Know Anything When It Comes to Investing

13/04/202105/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Deduction, Epistemology, Induction, Principles, Uncertainty

Retail investing can never really be solved. But we can translate our principles into strategies and tactics to do well.

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Investment Philosophy Probability and Statistics 

A Quick Post on Deduction

01/03/202114/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Deduction, Induction

Deduction, as opposed to induction, is the act of arriving at conclusion bottom-up, by applying logic to axioms. Here we introduce the technique.

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Investment Philosophy Investment Vehicles 

How to Invest in Memes

31/01/202114/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Bubbles, Investment Rules, Long-term, Meme Assets, Stonks

It’s very hard to to get caught up in the hype around bubbles and memes. Ok, fine – you can invest, but you must be careful.

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Investment Philosophy The Fundamentals 

PPP 1: Thinking (Very) Long-Term

04/09/202004/01/2023 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Long-term, Principles, Second-order effects

Thinking very long term is very beneficial for a number of reasons. Here we explore those reasons.

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Investment Philosophy Probability and Statistics Risk 

Shit Happens

14/07/202014/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Ergodicity, Fluctuation risk, Strategy

Stuff happens outside of your portfolio that can force you to sell. Timeline is stochastic. This is why investors often don’t enjoy the returns of the index.

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Investment Philosophy The Fundamentals 

What is Lifetime Investing?

26/06/202002/01/2023 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Long-term, Principles

Lifetime investing is the act of investing over your whole lifetime, in perpetuity. Here we outline that basic idea in more detail.

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Investment Philosophy Risk The Fundamentals 

The Principles of Perpetual Prudence

19/06/202002/01/2023 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Big picture, Downside, Long-term

Here at Perpetual Prudence we rely on principles to guide our actions. What principles?

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