Unbelievably this will be my 250th blog. It has never been a typical blog though in the true sense of the word. I’ve never clamoured for new subscribers or readers as most bloggers do. I’ve even ensured that Google doesn’t index my output anymore. I only invite existing clients to read them if they have the time. I’m just using the power of the internet to keep you all informed and updated. In some ways this has been a newsletter, in other ways hopefully somewhat educational.
The blogs are certainly not regulated financial advice. If they were they would have to carry so many caveats and risk warnings like “Don’t try this at home kids” or “If you play with fire you could get burned”. They are my personal (hopefully informed) researched opinions. The Financial Conduct Authority would also have something to say to me if I was using them for marketing or advice purposes. Not one would stand up to scrutiny in the regulated world I inhabit. Perhaps they have been just the musings of a confirmed sceptic. Maybe a real cynic. Cynicism is healthy in the investment world where funds and products often over promise and under deliver.
A Record
I believe the blogs do stand up as a record of the major financial events that have troubled us as investors since that first blog in January 2011. If I wrote for a newspaper I probably would have needed to be more dramatic and use words like “unprecedented” in every blog. My editor would have directed me to provoke and frighten you into the open arms of the paying advertisers. If I wrote for a newspaper I probably would have been “cancelled” by now too, for the odd opinion deemed to have crossed the line of just too far.
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