About

Hi, and welcome to my site!

I bring you 20 plus years of experience in the world of investment but with a specific focus that I think delivers interesting and rewarding insights.

My career began as an institutional investor managing a combination of mutual, pension and retail client funds before embarking on the second leg as an adviser to companies and investors on their relations with one another. I like to think I have seen the investment process from all sides: as an investor, a company spokesperson and as an adviser sitting in the middle.

Part of this latter role involved the evaluation of market intelligence around investing activities, assessing who was buying or selling and what this might mean for the relevant company and its share price. Out of this came a belief there were rewarding investment returns and a degree of comfort for a longer-term investor like myself – not being a day trader – in borrowing from the best ideas of the best resourced investors on the Street. This was the beginning of my entry into the world of magpie investing – taking the ideas of others better qualified than myself and investing on the back of their confidence.

I hope you find my blogs to be helpful in finding your own investment ideas. Naturally, and this is where the caveat comes in, any companies you read about on my content are my own ideas being shared and any subsequent action you choose to take is of your own volition.

best regards

The Magpie Investor