The Value Perspective: Five things parenting and investing have in common

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New and impending arrivals on The Value Perspective team - at home rather than at work - have prompted some discussion on the similarities between good parenting and good investing, writes Andy Evans

With The Value Perspective team blessed with a number of new and impending arrivals - at home rather than at work - we have found ourselves reflecting on similarities between good parenting and good investing. Here are five things we reckon the two disciplines have in common. The importance of patience I am sitting with my daughter as she reads through her book and she sees a word she does not recognise. She spells it out - "P-A-R-T-Y" - and in due course settles on "Party". It is an experience every parent will recognise - and presumably, like me, you choose not to point out that t...

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