Investment Mistakes Part 2: Hard Learned Lessons

Investment Mistakes Part 2: Hard Learned Lessons by Andrew Hunt. Hunt is an Investment Manager and author of Better Value Investing: A Simple Guide to Improving Your Results as a Value Investor.

In Part 1, I wrote about how to take responsibility for mistakes and get the most out of them. In this second part, I am going to share five of my most salient mistakes, what I learned and what I did about them. In practice, I’ve made dozens of errors over the years, alongside hundreds of small modifications to my investment process and checklists. This is merely a taster.

Investment mistakes – 1: Trying to be too clever by half

A few years ago I had a go at risk...