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| kenyantykoon\'s blog |
| a blog about stocks, bonds and mutual funds as well as a wealth of information on financial institutions that a finance reader will find useful and educative |
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| is a university education really that important?? |
| 2010-05-19 05:58:02 |
When i was younger, like in secondary school and high school, i had teachers that drummed it into our heads that to succeed financially in this life, you needed a college education. It went without saying that the harder the course you chose to do in campus the more money you would make.
It never crossed [...]...
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| value investing; underrated or overrated?? |
| 2010-05-17 05:43:43 |
Sometimes I think that this concept of value investing is under rated.
By value investing, I mean instead of being cautious in your investing endeavors and taking your time to research the company that has caught your eye, perform due diligence by going through the company’s financial documents and making sure the company is sound. Researching [...]...
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| blast from the past; a few posts that shouldn’t be forgotten |
| 2010-05-13 08:36:44 |
I was thinking to do a post on shorting and longing stocks and in the middle of the prep i decided to shelve it and link to a few good(read highly rated) posts that i did months ago but have since fallen into oblivion.
Here we go;
1. Please do not invest in mutual funds: When i [...]...
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| even super-investors make mistakes |
| 2010-05-12 09:23:44 |
I was reading through yahoo finance and I happened to come across this article that shows the losses that Warren Bueffett has made in his time as the CEO of Birkshire Harthaway. Here is another set of mistakes that cost the company billions.This link also includes lessons learnt.
A quick over view of some of the [...]...
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| robert kiyosaki’s conspiracy of the rich- my criticisms |
| 2010-05-11 05:56:13 |
Some time back, I did a personal book review on Robert Kiyosaki’s book the conspiracy of the rich.
I did not want to break any copyright laws so I just did an overview of what the book was all about without saying much in the way of criticism. This post will deal with just that; the [...]...
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| the human nature; the investor’s enemy |
| 2010-05-10 09:10:29 |
For some time now, I have been reading many articles and books about investment, particularly those dedicated to value investing. There is a lot that I have learnt from them about analyzing stocks, analyzing bonds, looking for margins of safety when investing, financial documents that an investor has to analyse, other factors that the investor [...]...
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| how to use due diligence in your investing |
| 2010-05-05 07:44:48 |
In most cases, this is value investing in a nutshell; due diligence.
For those unfamiliar with this very important term, due diligence is basically exhaustive research of all the aspects of a business whose stock or bonds you with to buy. So in a sense, this is the aspect of value investing that this site deals [...]...
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| how to get ripped off by stockbrokers |
| 2010-05-04 09:03:39 |
This post has been partly inspired by a movie that i recently watched called boiler room.
In it there are these very shrewd stock brokers that were in the business of selling stocks of IPOs to the public over the phone. What they did is that they would get a the telephone numbers of people from [...]...
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| why IPOs are a bad investment idea |
| 2010-04-29 09:05:24 |
This is a short post to get you thinking about whether r not you should invest in that IPO.
I know that initial public offerings cause a lot of excitement in the investing group but I have reason to believe that they are not the best of investing ideas.
First off, an initial public offering is where [...]...
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| what is capitalisation rate?? |
| 2010-04-28 11:33:19 |
Here is more “financial mumbo jumbo” for you . I have been reading financial books on stock and bond investing and this term kept coming up.
At first I thought that it was the somewhat related to market capitalization but on further research, I found that it was not. Here is what I found out [...]...
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