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Are You Worth Investing In?
Do you realise that if you're green you're growing and if you're ripe you're rotten? So says Winston Marsh, Business Marketing Guru in his recent newsletter.
Here's and excerpt from it ...
"Over the last week or so I have been presenting a...
Investing In Son's Business Could Cause A Real Family Feud
Q: My youngest son wants to borrow $5,000 to start his own business. My wife is afraid to tell him no. She thinks we should just give him the money and not expect anything in return. I disagree. He doesn't have a very good track record with money,...
Investing in the Czech Republic - Outside of Prague - Part 1: Brno Property
Imagine if you had bought property in Prague 8 years ago....
Brno property has been getting a lot of exposure lately. And for
good reason. Attractive deals in Prague are getting harder to
find. Attention is beginning to turn elsewhere.
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The Demise of Buy & Hold
Based on consistent results I think Buy & Hold should be renamed Buy, Hold & Bye-Bye. It sounded great for a while, especially for the huge majority of investors who don't have the time or interest in really doing due diligence on investments. ...
The Microwave Approach to Investing
We live in a society obsessed with a microwave approach to life.
We want what we want and we want it NOW! No doubt, we're
impatient. So how do you and I cope with our desire for instant
gratification?
Sure enough, we want it right now....
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The Capital Asset Pricing Model of Stock Investing (CAPM)
In 1990 Harry Markowitz, Merton Miller, and William Sharpe
shared the first Nobel Prize in the very young area of financial
economics. The Nobel committee recognized Harry Markowitz for
developing portofolio theory, Miller for the theory of corporate
finance, and Sharpe for the Capital Asset (stock market) Pricing
Model also known as CAPM.
CAPM was the crowning acheivment of theoretical economists bent
on proving that markets are efficient and work together
mathematically with the precision and elegance of a Rolex watch.
In the 1980s, researching financial economists began to notice a
slew of empirical results that are not consistent with the view
that stock market returns were determined in accordance with
CAPM and stock market efficiency.
It is useful for you to understand what CAPM is because you will
read or hear about it as you progress as a stock market
investor. CAPM is a regression model designed to separate out
the general stock market price changes from price changes
specific to a given stock. The general stock market price change
is called unsystematic risk. An investor can get the same return
as the general stock market buying a mutual fund that is indexed
to the stock market such as the Vanguard 500 fund (symbol
VFINX). For this reason the amount of profit you receive on a
specific stock that is as much as the stock market
indexes is
said to not be priced into the stock in terms of the risk you
are taking. The amount you make or lose on a given stock as
compared to the stock market averages is considered to be priced
by investors to compensate for the additional risk you take in
buying stock in a single company instead of a fund indexed to
the stock market. The profit or loss that you receive as
compared to the stock market is called systematic risk. The
capital asset pricing model measures systematic risk with a
regression coefficient called beta. When I talk about beta now
you know what it is; it is nothing more than a measure of
additional potential return an investor should receive for
purchasing a single stock based on how risky that stock is. I
want to emphasize that CAPM is based on the notion that the
stock market efficiently translates all information known about
the stock market into stock prices for stock investing purposes.
About the author:
Dr. Brown can teach you how to invest through The Delano Max
Wealth Institute (www.DelanoMax.com). He is dedicated to
providing you with courses and seminars that teach prudent
savings and investing habits. Dr. Brown is also a finance
professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras. He is
also recognized as an expert at low risk, high return investing
and takes great pride in helping others retire safely.
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