Making sense of investing.
Dividend investing can be an excellent way to invest in stocks but there a few things you need to know before you get started. Dividend investing is an strategy for investing in stocks to revolves around buying shares in a portfolio of companies that have a history of paying dividends. By investing in this dividend …
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Stock market drops can be very unnerving - you open your portfolio and serious money is 'missing' from what was there the day before. So what should you do? Sell, Hold or Buy. Some people would say 'buy the dip'. While some others, would rather 'sell to buy back' when the conditions improve. And some …
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What better stock to own than that of the company where you work, well, not so fast. If you work in a startup, they might offer some company shares as part of the compensation in lieu of a cash salary. If you work in a large public company, they may also offer employee stock options …
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Ideally, more money should mean a better financial position but it doesn't always work that way. The web is splashed with news of celebrities that were once rich. They earned a lot of money from their careers but all of it got frittered away through lifestyle choices. So how can you avoid this trap: Have …
With the way the stock market has dipped in the last few days, it's easy to get overwhelmed. It is was as though the bears would devour everything in sight. Anyway, they can’t. The Bears are just as part of the market furniture as the Bulls. These are some ways you can cope with the …
If you sold everything you owned and paid everybody you owed, how much would you have left? That's your net worth (net assets). So a celebrity buys a luxury item for his girlfriend from his billions, he has probably just spent a tiny proportion of his net assets (let's live potential future income for now). …
There are several investment strategies that can be used successful. Some people only invest in high-growth companies while some people choose to invest in companies that are in recovery. If we zoom out, some people have an active strategy while others choose to manage their investments passively. There is no particular strategy that is right …
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“Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.” – Peter Lynch If you are investing in the stock market, one thing you must know is that there’s always going to be a decline at some point. The exact time it …
Investing is a game of discipline: you have to be disciplined enough to not let your emotions get the best of you and you have to be disciplined enough to start early and continue regularly. – Warren Buffett If you knew exactly when a stock is at its low and its high, you would undoubtedly …
“Let's say it clearly: No one knows where the market is going-experts or novices, soothsayers or astrologers. That's the simple truth.” – Fortune With all the education we have today and real-time access to financial news, trying to time the market would seem like a brilliant thing to do and you’d expect to make a …
