The Lemon Fool

It arrived on my google feed yesterday. I've just enjoyed reading an FT journo's account of dinner with James Anderson. Looking back on his highly successful management of Scottish Mortgage (I know I'm not the only Fool he's helped enrich) and discussing current topics.

Slightly surprisingly I encountered no paywall at https://www.ft.com/content/e962ac7d-2bf ... ed3238463f

UncleEbenezer wrote:It arrived on my google feed yesterday. I've just enjoyed reading an FT journo's account of dinner with James Anderson. Looking back on his highly successful management of Scottish Mortgage (I know I'm not the only Fool he's helped enrich) and discussing current topics.

Slightly surprisingly I encountered no paywall at https://www.ft.com/content/e962ac7d-2bf ... ed3238463f

Yes. I take the hard copy FT on a Saturday and was delighted to find that yesterday's 'Lunch with the FT' was none other than with James Anderson. Lunch actually not dinner but no matter. The main point I think that I took from the article was that we need to look long term, that there is not a lot of difference between any entrepreneur, whether he/she (although his all seemed to be male) is Chinese or American.

The other interesting point was one that we are only too well aware of, that the British stockmarket is basically a machine for recycling capital through buying back shares and dishing out excessive dividends rather than creating companies.

He also has a go at the UK fund management industry, but read the article if you can.

Dod

UncleEbenezer wrote:
I've just enjoyed reading an FT journo's account of dinner with James Anderson.

Here's a Google Search URL where the first returned link will allow non-subscribers to read the FT article -

https://www.google.com/search?q=Baillie+Gifford+James+Anderson%3A+%E2%80%98There+will+always+be+the+Ides+of+March+out+there

An interesting read - thanks.

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

Itsallaguess wrote:

UncleEbenezer wrote:
I've just enjoyed reading an FT journo's account of dinner with James Anderson.

Here's a Google Search URL where the first returned link will allow non-subscribers to read the FT article -

https://www.google.com/search?q=Baillie+Gifford+James+Anderson%3A+%E2%80%98There+will+always+be+the+Ides+of+March+out+there

Nope, just asks me to subscribe.

Scott.

swill453 wrote:

Itsallaguess wrote:

UncleEbenezer wrote:
I've just enjoyed reading an FT journo's account of dinner with James Anderson.

Here's a Google Search URL where the first returned link will allow non-subscribers to read the FT article -

https://www.google.com/search?q=Baillie+Gifford+James+Anderson%3A+%E2%80%98There+will+always+be+the+Ides+of+March+out+there

Nope, just asks me to subscribe.

If I remember rightly, I don't think you ever clear your browser cookies?

That's likely to stop these Google-based FT workarounds ever working for you, unfortunately.

For others I think the above Google URL is likely to have better results if they're interested to read the James Anderson article.

I can understand some situations where clearing cookies might be unhelpful, but most modern browsers will allow themselves to be configured to only clear cookies for a selected group of sites, so it might be worth investigating that half-way house option, and just making your browser clear FT cookies, perhaps?

Some instructions here for a couple of popular browsers if this might interest you - https://www.beacontechnologies.com/blog/2012/10/clearing-cookies-from-just-one-site.aspx

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

Dod101 wrote:The other interesting point was one that we are only too well aware of, that the British stockmarket is basically a machine for recycling capital through buying back shares and dishing out excessive dividends rather than creating companies.

Partly because, unlike America, in Britain we have a peculiar mindset that is all about bashing the rich and/or successful.
If you are successful here then people want to see your downfall or tax everything you own.
Why bother producing the next Amazon/Microsoft/Tesla etc in the UK when you can bypass all that negativity and do it elsewhere?