The first question that should come across your heart at first is that who is an investor? An investor can be carefully defined as any individual or group of persons (company, organization or firm) that invests capital and his or her or the entity is expecting financial returns.
Different Investors You Need To Learn From
Warren Buffet
Warren Buffet is a good investor who is popularly known for his amazing quote of which is; “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.” Warren Buffet is known to be an investor and also a prolific teacher. He has a major company of which he happens to become an investor of which is popularly known as Berkshire Hathaway. He does write letters so as to advise this company and most of those letters have been developed to be the course content to which most universities used in teaching their students.
Warren Buffett as he is popularly called or known gives two principal advice when evaluating any company and they are: First, look at the quality of the company. This requires that you understand balance sheets, listen to conference calls and have confidence in the management before further attempts are made to start any investing. Second, only after you have confidence in the quality of the company should the price be evaluated; and this is important because when a financial goal is violated it brings issues when the investor and the company in which the investment was made.
Bill Gross
Bill Gross happens to be one of the founders of the popular company known as PIMCO and managed the PIMCO Total Return Fund, one of the largest bond funds in the world. Gross’ rule speaks about portfolio management. He made a popular quote to advise other young investors and that is; Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count. Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.”
The following are the words of Bill Gross:
A universal rule that most young investors know is diversification that is, not putting all of your investing capital into one name. Diversification is a good rule of thumb, but it can also diminish your profits when one of your picks makes a big move while other names don’t. Making money in the market is also about taking chances based on exhaustive research. Always keep some cash in your account for those opportunities that need a little more capital and don’t be afraid to act when you believe that your research is pointing to a real winner.
Carl Icahn
Carl Icahn is said to be an equity investor as well as a modern cooperate say raider. He made a popular quote where he said you learn to invest, if you do not want to learn, you can take a Dog. Some of his holdings have included Time Warner, Yahoo, Clorox, and Blockbuster Video.
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