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TMFMarkRogers88

Mark Rogers

General Information

Name:
Mark Rogers
Fool Since:
January 31 2013
Aliases:
MarkRogers88 (4/15/2013)
Where I Live:
London
Where I Grew Up:
Lancashire
Gender:
Male

Investing Basics

Investing Experience:
High
Risk Tolerance:
High
Investing Style:
Long-Term Buy to Hold
Types of Investments:
Productive assets - held, ideally, for a long while.
Stocks I Own:
BRK-B, MKL, LSE:JDG, LSE:BRBY, LSE:VCT, LSE:DWHA, LSE:GRG, LSE:TRCS, LSE:NXT, LSE:VUKE, LSE:VWRL

Investing Favorites

Books:
Security Analysis, The Interpretation of Financial Statements, Classics II: "Another Investors Anthology", The Evolution of Civilizations (Carroll Quigley); Little Book That Beats The Market, The Naked Trader, Successful Property Letting (Lawrenson), Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (Fisher), The Snowball, The Richest Man in Babylon, The Evaluation of Common Stocks (Bernhard), Your Money and Your Brain (Zweig), 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy (Harford), Guns Germs and Steel, Supermoney, The Money Game, When Genius Failed, A World Lit Only By Fire

Investing Expertise

My Area of Expertise:
"I tell you, my students, a man's wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is the income he buildeth, the golden stream that continually floweth into his purse and keepeth it always bulging. That is what every man desireth. That is what thou, each one of thee, desireth; an income that continueth to come whether thou work or travel" - Arkad, The Richest Man in Babylon

Education And Work Information

Job Title
Head of UK Investing
Company / Organization
The Motley Fool

An Interview with TMFMarkRogers88

Last updated: 1/5/2015
The Fool:
If you could use one example from your life to teach a financial lesson, what would it be?
TMFMarkRogers88:
Get started early. As early as you can. And if you have kids, grandchildren, nephews, or you teach or mentor young people in any capacity... try to get them interested, or at least aware, of basic financial principles. Don't spend more than you make. Save what you can. Invest for the long term. I got a huge break in life by "getting it" early, and compounding my learning from a young age.
The Fool:
What was your first educational exposure to investing?
TMFMarkRogers88:
My Dad. In the mid-90s my family got its first home computer, an old Windows 95. I was handy with a spreadsheet, so I helped my Dad set up his share portfolio on the PC. We'd get the FT delivered on Sunday morning, he'd call out the stock prices, I'd stick them into the spreadsheet. I vividly remember asking one day what a "P/E", a "yield" and all the different columns meant, and it began from there. I've been extraordinarily fortunate to stumble across my passion from an early age. Six years later and I began investing myself!
The Fool:
Tell us why you chose your current username (assuming there's an interesting reason!)
TMFMarkRogers88:
My name's Mark Rogers, born 1988. (edit - and now, the TMF bit means... I'm an analyst at the Motley Fool!)
[Read the full Interview]