Guy Spier
Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.
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Their wordsWe are all - each and every one of us - capable of great evil, and we are far better of is we recognize it.
↗Thoughts on the Conviction of Donna Adelsonguyspier.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsPeople who insist they're harmless aren't safe; they're naive. People who know exactly how dangerous they could become-and fear it-are the ones who deliberately yoke that force to good aims.
↗Thoughts on the Conviction of Donna Adelsonguyspier.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWe live in a culture that preaches self‑esteem more than self‑knowledge. That leaves people morally flabby-performing virtue while outsourcing the actual discipline that keeps ordinary humans from doing monstrous things.
↗Thoughts on the Conviction of Donna Adelsonguyspier.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI had always thought that all "Intelligent Investing" is "Value Investing". And that true value is always sustainable. In otherh words, "All Intelligent Finance is Sustainable Finance."
↗Lombard Odier, Oxford University and Sustainable Finance The Remarkable Transformation of a Discrete, Swiss Private Bankguyspier.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThere is, however, one approach that tops all of them - which the Swiss banking industry has not yet achieved, but is destined to. And that is to become a centre of true investing excellence.
↗Lombard Odier, Oxford University and Sustainable Finance The Remarkable Transformation of a Discrete, Swiss Private Bankguyspier.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe tariffs create political headlines that distract. But just as they can be easily announced, they can just as easily be changed or removed.
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AI-enhanced access to information makes copying top investors' strategies smarter than ever before.
Their wordsThere is more access to information than ever before. And that access is only enhanced by AI. Times could not be better for shameless cloners.
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Their wordsThis shared past between Persians and Jews is etched into my consciousness and that of many Israelis and Iranians. It will outlast the predations of the Ayatollahs and their Islamic Revolution of 1979.
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Their wordsThere is everything to play for, and we can still all come out better off.
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Their wordsI pray for the day when Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis - all proxies of the Ayatollahs-will become mere footnotes to history.