Thursday 13 June 2013

5 Investing Styles dominate today. Value Investing is fashionable again.

FIVE investing styles dominate today:

1.  Value Investors
They rely on fundamental analysis of companies' financial performance to identify stocks priced below intrinsic value (the present value of a company's future cash flows.)
Benjamin Graham and David Dodd in the 1930s.
Warren Buffett in the 1970s and 1980s.

2.  Growth Investors
They seek companies whose earnings gains promise to boost intrinsic value rapidly.
Philip Fisher late 1950s.
Peter Lynch in the 1980s.

3.  Index Investors
They buy shares that replicate a large market segment such as the S&P 500.
Endorsed by Graham for defensive investors.
John Bogle in the 1980s.

4.  Technical Investors
They use charts to glean market behaviour indiccating whether expectations are rising or falling, market trends, and other "momentum" indicators.
William O'Neill in the late 1990s.

5.  Portfolio Investors
Tney ascertain their appetite for investment risk and assemble a diversified securities protfolio bearing the risk level.
Burton G. Malkiel in early 1970s.


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