NEW ARTICLE: November’s Share Watch shareknowledge.blog/2025/11/29/o...
On a Dark Road to Who Knows Where
After 3 months of endless kite flying, the UK budget was not as bad as many feared. But to paraphrase fellow private investor ‘topvest’, it will undoubtedly hinder the nation’s prosperity as we fol…
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November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
NEW ARTICLE: November’s Share Watch shareknowledge.blog/2025/11/29/o...
New Substack: Laying Global Foundations - Building a Compounding Machine: Part One thecompoundingmachine.substack.com/p/laying-glo...
Laying Global Foundations
Building a Compounding Machine: Part One
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November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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New substack post 👇
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The Cheat Code
How to Compound Returns on Autopilot
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November 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
New substack post 👇
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I started a new substack thecompoundingmachine.substack.com
The Compounding Machine | Simon | Substack
In Pursuit of Financial Independence. Click to read The Compounding Machine, by Simon, a Substack publication. Launched 3 days ago.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I started a new substack thecompoundingmachine.substack.com
NEW: I’m developing a new podcast idea called Market Eye. It is a summary of the key weekly news driving markets, a deeper dive into selected companies (usually those with earnings releases) and a summary of key news expected in the week ahead.
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The Market Eye w e Friday 14 November 2025
YouTube video by Generating Alpha
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November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
NEW: I’m developing a new podcast idea called Market Eye. It is a summary of the key weekly news driving markets, a deeper dive into selected companies (usually those with earnings releases) and a summary of key news expected in the week ahead.
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Here at Alphaville we like writing about weird, surprisingly big or influential-in-an-interesting-way companies, eg Valve www.ft.com/content/f4a1... or Games Workshop www.ft.com/content/3692.... But what other odd companies/industries deserve a deep dive? Open to ideas.
Warhammer is weird. That’s why it works
Making sense of London’s latest blue-chip stock
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October 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Here at Alphaville we like writing about weird, surprisingly big or influential-in-an-interesting-way companies, eg Valve www.ft.com/content/f4a1... or Games Workshop www.ft.com/content/3692.... But what other odd companies/industries deserve a deep dive? Open to ideas.
Published: My Share Watch article for August shareknowledge.blog/2025/08/30/t...
The Summer Malaise
It seems as though this year’s summer malaise could prove to be the calm before the storm, on both a UK and global level. In the UK we are faced with what might prove to be a sovereign debt crisis …
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August 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Published: My Share Watch article for August shareknowledge.blog/2025/08/30/t...
My Share Watch article for July shareknowledge.blog/2025/07/31/r...
Robbing Hood
Having filled an imaginary black hole with an increase to Employers’ National Insurance contributions, the addition of VAT on private school fees and the means testing of the winter fuel allowance,…
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July 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My Share Watch article for July shareknowledge.blog/2025/07/31/r...
I have published my Q2 portfolio review (excluding Monday as I am taking next week off) shareknowledge.blog/2025/06/27/b...
Big but not so Beautiful
Who names a piece of legislation, The One Big Beautiful Bill? I’ll give you one guess and no, it’s not little Jackie from the kindergarten. It is of course the Trump administration’s budget reconci…
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June 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I have published my Q2 portfolio review (excluding Monday as I am taking next week off) shareknowledge.blog/2025/06/27/b...
You've been kidnapped a character from the last tv show you watched is trying to rescue you who is coming to save you.
June 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
You've been kidnapped a character from the last tv show you watched is trying to rescue you who is coming to save you.
My Share Watch article for May shareknowledge.blog/2025/05/30/t...
The Tariff Okey Cokey
May started well with an agreement between the US and China to suspend most of the reciprocal tariffs so that more in-depth negotiations could take place. At one point during the month President Tr…
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May 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
My Share Watch article for May shareknowledge.blog/2025/05/30/t...
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the cinema
May 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the cinema
My Share Watch article for April shareknowledge.blog/2025/04/30/s...
Swimming Naked
Warren Buffett once famously said, “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who has been swimming naked”. He was of course referring to the risks associated with leverage and last week presente…
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April 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
My Share Watch article for April shareknowledge.blog/2025/04/30/s...
My Portfolio Review for Q1 shareknowledge.blog/2025/03/31/t...
Trumped!
In my annual review I wrote that “Trump 2.0 brings unpredictability and volatility.” While that might be true, things are unfolding in ways many people, myself included, had not imagined. From a di…
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March 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My Portfolio Review for Q1 shareknowledge.blog/2025/03/31/t...
Share Watch for February shareknowledge.blog/2025/02/28/s...
Share Watch – February 2025
For reasons I shall not trouble you with, I am time poor at the moment and therefore, this is an abbreviated version of Share Watch for February. Company News News this month came from Warpaint (W7…
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February 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Share Watch for February shareknowledge.blog/2025/02/28/s...
New Diary Note: The Boy Who Cried Wolf shareknowledge.blog/2025/02/20/t...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
I am sure most readers are familiar with Aesop’s fable about the shepherd boy who cried wolf. For anyone not familiar with the tale I asked Grok to help me out. Let’s talk about Gold I hate gold. I…
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February 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
New Diary Note: The Boy Who Cried Wolf shareknowledge.blog/2025/02/20/t...
Share Watch - January 2025 featuring #GAW #GAMA #IGG #FOUR #FNX #PAY #TPFG and introducing Screen of the Month which is a new feature for 2025 shareknowledge.blog/2025/01/31/s...
Share Watch – January 2025
The start of 2025 has been like an episode of The Golden Shot – left a bit, right a bit, up a bit, down a bit, fire! Readers of a certain age will get the reference and if you are too young to reme…
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January 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My annual portfolio review shareknowledge.blog/2024/12/31/t...
Two Halves
It has been a funny old year. The bull was in fine fettle for the first six months of 2024 with my Compound Growth & Income portfolio (CGI) delivering a return of 16% by the halfway stage. The …
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December 31, 2024 at 2:24 PM
My annual portfolio review shareknowledge.blog/2024/12/31/t...
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Many Really interesting articles Ed Croft is writing lately, this being one of the best I think.
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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MGM were a client of mine once and at the time were the UK’s oldest registered company (number 6) but were dissolved in 2018 after being acquired in 2015 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mar...
December 15, 2024 at 8:07 AM
MGM were a client of mine once and at the time were the UK’s oldest registered company (number 6) but were dissolved in 2018 after being acquired in 2015 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mar...
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
December 11, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
I have pre-launched a new section of my site, The Compounding Machine. Feedback is welcome shareknowledge.blog/the-compound...
The Compounding Machine
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.” – Albert Einstein Introduction As regular readers of this site will kn…
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December 5, 2024 at 3:07 PM
I have pre-launched a new section of my site, The Compounding Machine. Feedback is welcome shareknowledge.blog/the-compound...
This month’s Share Watch looking at company news and some ramblings shareknowledge.blog/2024/11/29/s...
Share Watch – November 2024
Trump 2.0 I am not American and therefore, will not express a political view on the result of the American election. However, it is likely to have a meaningful effect on markets over the next four …
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November 29, 2024 at 3:29 PM
This month’s Share Watch looking at company news and some ramblings shareknowledge.blog/2024/11/29/s...
I have lots of new followers overnight following a post at the other place. Thank you and welcome. If you’d like a follow back please fill in your profile to let me know you’re into investing or something else interesting like how to sell orphan bananas 🤣🤣 bsky.app/profile/i-me...
"Academics from the University of Bath placed a sign in front of the orphans in the fruit aisle. It showed a banana bearing a frown and the message 'we are sad singles and want to be bought as well'.
This moved shoppers."
Apparently, sales of sad single bananas went up by 58%!
#WasteReduction
This moved shoppers."
Apparently, sales of sad single bananas went up by 58%!
#WasteReduction
Shoppers can be made to feel sorry for single bananas, study finds
November 29, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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This month’s Share Watch article contains a bit of a rant about the budget. Normal service will be resumed next month shareknowledge.blog/2024/10/31/s...
Share Watch – October 2024
As the saying goes, you can put lipstick on a pig but at the end of the day, it is still a pig. And so it was that Rachel from accounts tried to dress up a massive tax and spend budget as investing…
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October 31, 2024 at 4:55 PM
This month’s Share Watch article contains a bit of a rant about the budget. Normal service will be resumed next month shareknowledge.blog/2024/10/31/s...