Category Archives: Investing

Spend 20 years as a youth in learning. (Warren Buffett bought his first share of stock at age 11 — and says he wishes that he had started earlier.) Spend 20 years investing in the sound new ideas of the … Continue reading →

In building an investment portfolio, investors should avoid unnecessary risk through diversification. Diversification is the allocation of investable funds to a variety of investments. By diversifying, investors can reduce the risk that they would otherwise bear. The market’s recent run … Continue reading →

Individual investors rarely believe this, but there hasn’t been a better time to be a small investor. If you thought the costs of investing fell during the dot-com boom, look again. A new wave of aggressive online discount brokerages are … Continue reading →

If you only have a limited amount of money, where can you invest it, and receive the highest return? The first thing to do is to question what you want your money to do for you. Typically people save money … Continue reading →

We are about to see a seismic shift in asset allocation towards hedge funds and private equity. Some supportive data quickly arrived from Private Equity Intelligence  suggesting a cool $85bn of institutional money will shift to hedge funds over the … Continue reading →