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Elroy Dimson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
564 total appearances

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The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

And she wrote a number, which is an account number,

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

And in her final years,

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

my wife's mother was keen to get these savings.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

And so these were put there.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

They were run-to money in case they had to run again.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

We went from bank to bank.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

None of them recognized the number.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

It had been inadvertently expropriated.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

We went to the banking ombudsman in Switzerland.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

And several years later, we wrote that they had identified this deposit

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

was no explanation as to quite what happened to it, explanations to how it got money, but this money which the young couple who had escaped from Germany at the end of the 1930s was eventually available much more than half a century later.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

This expropriation risk is a real dilemma and it's one which as a family we've seen

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

I'd say it has become more important.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

That's because companies find somewhere to list their shares.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

And so you end up with a listing in locations which are not naturally where they...

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

do their profit creation.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

We had quite a number of years of resource companies being listed on the London Stock Exchange.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

They're not much in the way of resources that comes out of the ground in Britain.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

When you diversify across markets, you're diversifying different sorts of things.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson โ€“ Investing & Optimism

The reality of diversifying across industries now is more compelling than it was