Introduction
There are three main parts of my life: family, the stock market and politics. This book is focused on the stock market – more than 50 years of a fascinating hobby: from my first investment aged 15, through to becoming what I like to describe as ‘a serious private investor’. This period also included the more recent dozen years of writing the ‘My Portfolio’ column in FT Money (more than 200 articles).
I wrote this book because I want to share with you my investing principles from the last 50 years. As I was writing it I looked back over that time at all my transactions, many hundreds of them; sometimes it feels as if I have owned every quoted share! I have made many mistakes – I share these with honesty and in some cases painful ...
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