You’re quite a character, Uncle Masse 
Thank you for these kind words.
Winning Starmine plaques always requires luck, because it’s practically impossible to achieve exceptionally high alpha with our operating model without movement in the monitored stocks. In this sense, I’ve had a favorable situation in recent years, with rocket stocks like Talenom and Aspocomp under observation. If you catch them and avoid mistakes at the same time, success can follow. Last year was exceptional in that I don’t remember a single real recommendation blunder. That’s rare, and apparently, it helps you do well even in Europe. In the future, I will make mistakes again; it’s part of the game. However, I am confident that there will be more successes than blunders.
Investing is a long-term endeavor, just like an analyst’s work. My greatest respect goes to those colleagues who consistently create added value year after year and thus perform quite steadily in these rankings. I had a peak year now, but I am prouder of the fact that I have been able to create value for investors relatively systematically for a long time. When you look at our team on the Starmine lists, you’ll relatively regularly find Sauli, Mikael, in my opinion, the underestimated star Antti Viljakainen, and especially in recent years, Petri Kajaani, who also had an excellent last year. Others have also done great, and awards are found across a wide front, so we’re doing something right here at Inderes.
However, one should not blindly follow my views or anyone else’s. It’s more important to try to create an investment style and overall picture that suits you, for which you should gather information from as many quality sources as possible. I constantly question myself, listen to others’ views (preferably opposing ones), and then try to create as objective an overall picture as possible. If you spend too long mulling things over in your own head, you’ll probably start to think you understand everything. But pride prevents learning, and if you don’t constantly learn more in this job, you’ll fall behind. Then the recommendations won’t hit, the ramblings won’t interest anyone, and Uncle Masse will put you on the black list 
This analyst job is often such that successes are forgotten, but mistakes are remembered forever. In history, the majority of “feedback” has also been related precisely to the latter, and sometimes crap has been showered on me undeservedly. At such times, it has been really important that some impartial party looks at how things actually went. In that, Starmine has been excellent. I am grateful that nowadays a community has formed around Inderes, from which I receive not only deserved criticism but also praise and positive feedback. A big thank you for that 
