The Art of Boring™ was created for curious and passionate investors. We share strategies, frameworks, and insights to help readers and listeners make better investment decisions. Our aim? To provide some bottom-up, long-term investing signal to cut through the short-term noise.

  • (Not) boring finds for July 2015

    Our team comes across hundreds of weird and wonderful reads in our daily research. Below are the handful that stood out for us this month.

    July 17, 2015


  • An imperfect signal

    Bondholders have been on quite the ride in the last few months. The year began with yields moving lower in many regions—notably Europe—to the surprise of some investors who just last year thought that rates could only go higher.

    June 15, 2015

  • (Not) boring finds for June 2015

    Our team comes across hundreds of weird and wonderful reads in our daily research. Below are the handful that stood out for us this month.

    June 4, 2015


  • Curious George

    It’s hard not to love Curious George.  It’s an unfair contest really—here’s a cute little monkey who, with the best of intentions, constantly gets into trouble as he explores the overly-structured world around him!

    May 20, 2015

  • Quiet heroes

    Too often, we seem to confuse heroism with heroics, significance with pomp and flash.

    May 13, 2015

  • The unfathomable is not impossible

    When we open our minds to a wide set of possibilities—including ideas that initially seem impossible—we make it easier to put the odds in our favour over time.

    May 5, 2015

  • The boy who cried Greece

    Greece has been struggling with some manner of financial crisis for almost five years. The situation has become worse of late due to the fallout from the January 2015 election when the leftist party Syriza rose to power under an anti-austerity mandate.

    April 28, 2015

  • (Not) boring finds for April 2015

    Our team occasionally uncovers signal in the daily parsing of noise. Since such information can be easily passed over, we thought we’d make it a habit to share some links that we’ve liked recently.

    April 23, 2015

  • Rockin’ and rollin’ in China

    The Chinese stock market has been very hot as of late. Many Chinese indices are up dramatically over the last twelve months.

    April 21, 2015

  • Unlocking India’s potential

    This was my first lesson in India. When you arrive in the country, you don’t just land at the airport, India lands on you.

    April 7, 2015