Love is… picking the right stock

'We genuinely love each and every one of these companies when we take an initial position'

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Gabriel Sacks gets into the spirit of Valentine's Day with a look at stockpicking, falling in love and when it is right to move on...

The Love Is… comic strip was launched more than 50 years ago. It was created by Kim Casali, a New Zealand cartoonist, who based it on a series of notes she produced for her future husband. Each strip consists of a single frame. "Love is…" appears in the upper-left corner, with the phrase completed beneath an illustration of an adoring couple. Classic examples include "Love is… being able to say you are sorry", "Love is… all you could ever wish for" and "Love is… taking one day at a time". As far as I am aware, amid the thousands of variations on the theme which have been syndicated wo...

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