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Ideas Farm: Profiting from unorthodox value

As value investors struggle to find a solution for an endemic problem with accounting standards, US firm Sparkline Capital has used machine learning to put a value on intangible assets with noteworthy results

Ideas Farm: Never start at the beginning

When reading company accounts, investors must focus on what they need to see ahead of what management wants them to see.

Ideas Farm: 2 fallacies, Coca-Cola and Ronaldo

Our brains are ridiculously good at seeing connections that aren’t there while overlooking ones that are, which the story of footballer Ronaldo and Coca-Cola so beautifully illustrates.

Ideas Farm: Is the value rotation over?

For all the yammering about 'value' stocks, UK value has underperformed over the past three months. Is the best from this trend behind us?

Ideas Farm: Ruffer's reward for failure

Ruffer need not apologise for its dud bitcoin trade. But that's because of how it dealt with the mistake rather than because of the $1.1bn profit it bagged as a result of it

Ideas Farm: Titans don’t stay atop forever

It may seem like nothing can topple the current giants of the stock market. But history tells us otherwise

Ideas Farm: Is intrinsic value a fool’s errand?

What's the point in trying to estimate intrinsic value?

Ideas Farm: Crystal ball gazing

Research from quant firm Verdad Capital suggests a straightforward way to help gauge the direction of the world’s leading economy.

Ideas Farm: Dog Money

I'm late to the party writing about dogecoin madness, but not as late as the potentially revolutionary applications for block chain that the insane price hi-jinx may prove a harbinger of

Ideas Farm: Happy first birthday!

The Ideas Farm has existed for a year, and a lot has changed in that time