Category: Value Investing

When Howard Schultz opened his first coffee store in Seattle, he strove to replicate the experience of the coffee houses he’d visited in Italy; a place where people

Retailing is hard. Staying on top of the industry for decades is even harder. Particularly when the products you sell are technology based and always changing. Which begs

It’s not quite been a steady road, but since 2010, the dollar has strengthened by account of most metrics. Against the Euro, it strengthen significantly over the year

Value investing is a simple strategy at its core. Value investors select stocks that the market is underestimating for their intrinsic value. Have you ever wanted to buy

If there is one stock in America you could buy outside Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger’s advice is to choose Costco. He sits on the board. Not surprising Charlie

The economic calendar documents all the key pre-scheduled economic events from around the world. These outcomes are significant to investors, as they represent the macroeconomic health of different

Whilst I’m a long-time avid follower of all of the Investment Masters, and I have to say a veritable devourer of their collected wisdom, there is nothing more

Simply put, alternative investments are assets that aren’t included in the conventional investment classifications. The conventional investment classifications include cash, stocks, and bonds. Alternative investment classifications include everything

Even in the best of times, investors are looking for strategies to beat the market. While this leads many to take unnecessary risks, one proven investment approach, value

One major reason people invest is so they can create a source of passive income. In that particular scenario, having an excellent fixed income is probably your safest bet.

One of the traits that sets the Great Investors apart is the ability to be grounded – to remain calm under pressure and sensible when things get hairy.

If successful investing was as easy as acting on the headlines of the financial press or the latest stockbroker bulletin, we’d all be wealthy indeed. Very wealthy and

For the Enterprising Investor Are you the investor that loves to inspect every individual data point in a stock? Are you an active trader? Let’s introduce you to

WHAT VISA DOES Visa sits at the center of more than half of the world’s credit card transactions, connecting cardholders (and their banks) on one side, with merchants

Walmart, Costco, Home Depot. You’ve heard of them no doubt? Together, they’re recognised as the world’s largest retail and hardware chains and believe it or not, all three

Not many investors have been likened to Warren Buffett in their investment career. Besides numerous other aspects, you would need to have an incredible track record for one,

What if I told you that there was a guy who has a degree in History, who, when he started his career in investing not only did not

  As an investor, you should be digging into a company’s financial statements. However, you can’t look at these financials in isolation – it’s important to compare a company’s results to other

Investing involves risk. No surprise there and virtually every investor will agree. When there’s the chance of losing your capital, and by that I mean permanent loss of

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INTRODUCTION Visa is one of the biggest companies in the world. Cards bearing the Visa logo are used more than 340 million times every day. And the Visa

If you’ve worked in investing for a while, or even if you’re a private investor, I’m sure you will have come across the term Arbitrage. It comes from

Are you wanting to join the investing world, but think you don’t have enough money to begin? Think again. You don’t need a crazy amount of money to

I received a wonderful note from an investor named Johnny Bonner who translated my Ten Commandments of Investment Management into verses that rhyme. I am sharing Johnny’s note

I very much enjoyed returning to the Investor’s Podcast with Preston Pysh and Stig Brodersen. We dove into cloning, the difficulty of beating a broad-based index like the