Views & Insights
Periodically we publish content that puts our principles and views into practice, because education is an essential component of long-term investment success.
CATEGORY: Being a successful investor
Women of Burgundy: Sharing Our Stories
The Journal | April 2014
Anne Maggisano delivered the following speech on April 23, 2014 at the inaugural Women of Burgundy event, "Sharing Our Stories."...
PDF: Stoicism and the Art of Portfolio Intervention
The View | February 2013
Warren Buffett and other successful quality/value investors have given us a capital compounding system that works. But few follow the program. In this issue of The View from Burgundy,...
Narrowing the Scope for Effective Decision-Making
The Journal | February 2013
In a post last month, Anne Maggisano provided one step towards better investment decision-making: to consider the range of possible outcomes and the probability of their occurrence before making a...
Go Global
The Journal | January 2013
Burgundy has long been a proponent of global investing. We believe that limiting the geographic scope of your equity investments will both reduce return potential and add to portfolio risk....
Make the Choice to Think Deliberately
The Journal | January 2013
In November I had the great fortune to participate in the Investment Decisions and Behavioural Finance course at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge. It was an intense and exhilarating...
Quick Brain, Thoughtful Brain
The Journal | November 2012
In my last post I explained that the human brain is built ill-equipped for the investment world. The typical human fear/greed responses are counterproductive to our long-term investment goals...
Surviving Success: Investment Management and Value Added
The View | October 2012
The job we do as trustees is one of the hardest I can think of. I say we, because I have served as trustee on several pension and endowment funds....
Our Primitive Brain: An Impediment to Investment Success
The Journal | October 2012
My first post on the topic of behavioural finance introduced the idea that investors, rather than listening to logic that tells them to buy low and sell high, do just...