The study I mentioned is interesting... it provides some detailed research on a lot of firms and provides evidence that while there certainly is some mean reversion, the majority of good companies remain good and
the majority of bad companies remain bad.
Not exact matches
In a recent Harris Decima survey, 71 %
of respondents felt it was a
bad thing for Chinese interests to buy a
majority stake in a Canadian - owned
company.
Additionally, a
majority of employees say being a micromanager is the
worst trait a boss can have, according to a recent Comparably survey
of over 2,000 employees at tech
companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Uber.
The art part
of it for me is sticking with
companies / brands that I know or use regularly, and relying on dividend index funds for the
majority of my investments in case my individual stock picks go
badly.
Apart from my personal opinion that he is the main one responsible for our poor transfer budgets and lack
of ambition for the club since he became
majority shareholder but
worse still he has now shown who he really is by the launch
of the appalling hunting channel just launched in the UK by the
company that he owns!
To make matters
worse, a
majority of the MassInsight
company consultants have left and been replaced by even less experienced individuals.
The inevitable failure
of the
majority of these
companies is down to simple math — not
bad luck, as the suckers like to believe.
The «protectionist instincts» that I and others have are (1) to protect the independence
of the bar (sure to be lost eventually under nonlawyer ownership), (2) to protect the health
of the legal marketplace (sure to be
badly harmed by the cartelization
of ABS (see the 5 % commissions charged by the cartel
of real estate agencies who still control the vast
majority of the realty market, and especially see the ridiculously high costs
of dealing with the American title insurance industry where four
companies have upwards
of 87 %
of the conveyancing and title insurance market after first decimating the real estate bar with predatory pricing and other unfair business practices)-RRB-, and (3) to protect the public from those ravages.
Now let me be clear - I honestly believe the
majority of companies out there are running honest operations and don't stoop to these shady tactics; but unfortunately there are some
bad apples out there.
This is meant to be a «consumer awareness» guide to help you spot the
companies to avoid and pinpoint the «we buy houses»
companies that you can trust (because the
majority of home buyers are great people with great integrity... it's those few
bad apples that ruin it for everyone else.)