Category "Mental Models"

Scuttlebutt and its dramatic effect on long-term investing | John Wilson | EP10
John Wilson, analyst on Mawer’s global small cap equity strategy, defines scuttlebutt and its competitive advantage for long-term investors.

Process before proceeds
In theory, investors should improve at least linearly over time as they make and learn from errors.

The competitive advantage of high performing teams | Vijay Viswanathan | EP06
Vijay Viswanathan, Mawer’s Director of Research, on the key characteristics of high performing investment teams.

China in focus
Many of the old stories surrounding China are becoming—or are—obsolete. New ones are emerging.

Life at railway speed: Lessons from the technology hype cycle
In 1845, Scottish poet and author, William Aytoun, published his satire, How we got up the Glenmutchkin Railway, and how we got out of it. His story focused on the railway stock frenzy that gripped Great Britain, with the aim...

The end of oil?
In the spring of 2000, Sheikh Yamani gave an unprecedented interview with The Telegraph on the future of oil. As he was the former Saudi oil minister from 1962 to 1986, many paid close attention to his declaration that “[t]hirty...