Kennon-Green & Co. Global Asset Management, Wealth Management, Investment Advisory, and Value Investing

We All Won the Lottery (Yet People Still Think the World Is Going to Hell)

I’ve been busy with family stuff lately, and, as part of that, taken several trips to the grocery store over the past few days.  I was standing in the produce section looking at the fruits and vegetables when I experienced a sense of awe.  It’s a human tendency to take for granted the things into which one is born but it really is incredible when you take time to reflect upon, and appreciate, the inheritance we all enjoy because of the men and women who came before us.

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Case Study: Read a Group of Stockholders Realize In Real Time They’ve Lost Their Entire Life Savings When GT Advanced Technologies Declares Bankruptcy

Are you in the mood for a case study resource for your own investment policy manual?  If so, brace yourself because this one is heartbreaking.  You can learn a lot from it, and save your own family a great deal of tragedy, but it’s going to involve surveying the ruins of the lives of others…

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The Standard Life Insurance Demutualization (Or How 72,000 Former Policyholders in the United Kingdom Are About to Forfeit £113,000,000 in Unclaimed Stock and Cash)

Imagine you have a policy with an insurance company.  This insurance company is mutually run, which means there are no stockholders.  Instead, the policyholders own the business and the enterprise is managed to give policyholders the best service, at the lowest possible price, as a cooperative undertaking.  Now, imagine that one day, the policyholders’ representatives decide they want the business to become a for-profit corporation.

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