The Wisdom of Brackets
This is the title of a fascinating article beginning on page 128 of the March 26, 2007 edition of BusinessWeek magazine.
The article goes on to say that the use of bracket structure forces you to organize and focus your thoughts. "The smartest executives and the most successful investors have a unique ability to process an enormous amount of information and boil it down into binaries - "yes or no" is a binary - that simplify decision making."
What I find most interesting is the fact that there is a book: The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything from which they used a particular bracket in making a decision about which will be the better performing asset class, given a cautious view of the global investment scene at this point in time.
And guess which one came out as the winner?... Something I have mentioned from time to time at our meetings - most recently our meeting last Thursday... GLOBAL REITs! And the particular Global REIT I mentioned has been generating an average return of 7%+ each year, and its 52-week total return (interest + appreciation) is 34.3%. Now I will not mention it here on the Blog, however, I will talk about it again at our next meeting in April for anyone who is interested.
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The article goes on to say that the use of bracket structure forces you to organize and focus your thoughts. "The smartest executives and the most successful investors have a unique ability to process an enormous amount of information and boil it down into binaries - "yes or no" is a binary - that simplify decision making."
What I find most interesting is the fact that there is a book: The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything from which they used a particular bracket in making a decision about which will be the better performing asset class, given a cautious view of the global investment scene at this point in time.
And guess which one came out as the winner?... Something I have mentioned from time to time at our meetings - most recently our meeting last Thursday... GLOBAL REITs! And the particular Global REIT I mentioned has been generating an average return of 7%+ each year, and its 52-week total return (interest + appreciation) is 34.3%. Now I will not mention it here on the Blog, however, I will talk about it again at our next meeting in April for anyone who is interested.
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