Motley Fool Author: Scott Phillips
Scott Phillips is an Investment Analyst with The Motley Fool and co-Advisor of our flagship investment service, Motley Fool Share Advisor. He is passionate about investing, having managed his own portfolio for over 15 years. A dyed-in-the-wool Fool (in the best way), he has been a member of The Motley Fool since 1999. Scott holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Management) and is currently completing his MBA. Before joining the Fool, Scott worked in various Sales and Finance roles in industry, which has allowed him to see the good, bad and the ugly of corporate management close-up. Giving him a great understanding of the way businesses run – and what separates the business wheat from the chaff – Scott wholeheartedly agrees with Warren Buffett when he said he was a ‘better investor because I am a businessman and a better businessman because I am an investor’. Scott left a successful career to follow his passion – investing and helping others invest better. It’s no surprise he ended up as an Investment Analyst at The Motley Fool.
Posts by Scott Phillips
- Market slide: What would Buffett do?, (14 Jun 2013)
- Stop whinging: The Optimist’s Manifesto, (07 Jun 2013)
- Can Fairfax Media make its new model ‘pay’?, (06 Jun 2013)
- What your broker really means, (24 May 2013)
- Enjoying the boom? Not so fast…, (10 May 2013)
- Live – The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, (04 May 2013)
- Lest We Forget, (25 Apr 2013)
- Don’t buy the gold miners – yet, (17 Apr 2013)
- Warren Buffett is right — gold is incapable, (13 Apr 2013)
- A super taxing question for investors, (05 Apr 2013)
- ‘Buy and Hold’ is dead — Announcing our new market-beating service, (01 Apr 2013)
- What’s the difference between a ‘limit’ and ‘market’ order?, (27 Mar 2013)
- Berkshire: The easiest investment decision, ever, (14 Mar 2013)
- Shafted shareholders deserve a fair go, (08 Mar 2013)
- Motley stock of the week: G8 Education, (06 Mar 2013)
- The last hurrah for bank shareholders as the ‘new normal’ ends, (21 Feb 2013)
- The bulls are back — and adding $75b of value on the ASX, (01 Feb 2013)
- Top US stocks for 2013… and beyond, (30 Jan 2013)
- Has the shine come off Apple?, (28 Jan 2013)
- Investing resolutions for the New Year, (02 Jan 2013)
- Merry Christmas!, (25 Dec 2012)
- Gerry Harvey’s American nightmare, (11 Dec 2012)
- Ardent Leisure: Fun for the whole family, (07 Dec 2012)
- Shuffling the deckchairs at Qantas, (03 Dec 2012)
- Will JB Hi-Fi make Gerry Harvey’s day?, (28 Nov 2012)
- Retail Food Group: Value through the haze, (27 Nov 2012)
- Buffett talks sense on tax, (27 Nov 2012)
- NIB continues to deliver, (16 Nov 2012)
- We will remember them, (11 Nov 2012)
- Your services are no longer required, (08 Nov 2012)