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Terry Smith And The Big ROCE Fallacy

Why high return on capital isn't the key to high investment performance.

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Oguz Erkan
Dec 03, 2025
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It was a sunny Tuesday last week in Milan, which was refreshing after several dishwater-gray, rainy days. (It’s now rainy again..)

When the sun is up and the sky is open, I always feel more intellectually stimulated and thus a bit more contrarian. It’s probably a side effect of having lived in LA for years. My brain is wired to work when it’s sunny and h…

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