Alaric Nightingale talks to
David Marchant,
a man whose journalism should have earned him a knighthood for
services to the investment community.
Once the jargon has been stripped away, there are only two qualities
that make for a successful investor. The first, an ability to
identify and invest in profitable assets; the second, an ability to
avoid frittering away capital by making stupid investment decisions.
Any article that does not help you towards these ends will not help
you become/remain wealthy.
The normal goal of this column is to interview those who may or may
not prove to be creators of wealth. In other words, halfway decent
asset managers. The trouble is, the majority – probably about 90 per
cent – of fund managers have no more talent for identifying
attractive assets than a dexterous baboon or a four-year-old
schoolgirl. So the chances of identifying and interviewing genuinely
talented asset managers may not always be great.
Nonetheless, unless he crosses over to the Dark Side, we feel
entirely confident in stating that this month’s interviewee will
help international investors on the second part of the investment
equation; namely, not losing money. And all for free, if you want.
His name is David Marchant, he is the principal and editorial
overlord at Miami-based KYC News & Research. We believe he deserves
to be knighted for his journalism.
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