One primary habit of billionaires is they read a lot, covering financial literacy, investment portfolios and many other topics. Read at least 30 minutes a day. Maximise your time on the MRT or bus. Constantly add to your expert knowledge on personal finance, personal financial planning and personal investment portfolio. When you tire or feel like a break, read other subjects – especially subjects your clients are into – and …
Read MorePlanning for Success
Planning for success starts with us, the individual, and every successful person plans – and so can you! Start small and the immediate results will enthuse you to plan more. Soon, planning will become a habit. Start with the easily reversible plans – that’s starting small. You make decisions every day, these eat up your time and soon fatigue sets in. Beyond a threshold, subsequent decisions become sub-optimal and your …
Read MoreFour Investment Tips For Women, From Author And Entrepreneur Mary Buffett
Mary Buffett is a best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur, political and environmental activist. Her first book Buffettology, co-written with David Clark in 1997, was an immediate New York Times and Business Week best-seller. Since that time, all seven of her books have been best-sellers. She was also Warren Buffett’s former daughter-in-law. On 11 July 2015, during the World Value Investing Fest held in Singapore, she has revealed some of Warren Buffett’s …
Read MoreWARREN BUFFETT’S LETTER TO HIS SHAREHOLDERS
<<If You Pass Some Money To Warren Buffett In 1964 To Invest, Your Money Will Increase By 1,826,163% By The End Of 2014>> Some key points that we have summarised from a 43-page report for easy reading: (I) BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY’S PERFORMANCE VS S&P 500 Berkshire’s book value increase by 751,113% from 1964 – 2014 as compared to 11,196% if you were to invest in S&P 500 YEAR 2014 IN BERKSHIRE …
Read MoreSECRETS OF WARREN BUFFETT – WHAT IS VALUE INVESTING? PART 4 OF 4
Hi Friends We’re finally down to the last instalment of our 4-part miniseries on Value Investing and Warren Buffett. The word ‘value investing’ is probably most closely associated with Warren Buffett than just about any other investor in the world and that’s rightly so. After all, Buffett’s the fourth richest man in the world with a fortune worth about US$54.6b (as of March 2013) that was built almost solely on …
Read MoreSECRETS OF WARREN BUFFETT – WHAT IS VALUE INVESTING? PART 3 OF 4
Hi Friends We’re now in the third instalment of our 4-part miniseries on Warren Buffett and how his investing style came to be. For a brief recap, we shared how value investing got started with the writings and teachings of Benjamin Graham. Then, we told the story of how Buffett worked for Graham and met Walter Schloss. Schloss would eventually turn out to be a great investor himself while staying true …
Read MoreSECRETS OF WARREN BUFFETT – WHAT IS VALUE INVESTING? (PART 2 OF 4 SERIES)
Hi Friends Last week (https://www.investment-in-stocks.com/whatisvalueinvestingpart1/), we shared some details about how value investing got started and introduced its intellectual patriarch, Benjamin Graham. Benjamin Graham Graham taught an investing course at Columbia Business School, which Warren Buffett attended. After Buffett’s graduation from Columbia, he eventually ended up working for Graham at his investment firm, the Graham-Newman Corporation (GNC). People familiar with the term value investing in modern times might associate it …
Read MoreSECRETS OF WARREN BUFFETT – WHAT IS VALUE INVESTING? (PART 1 OF 4 SERIES)
Dear Friends Many of you are probably familiar with the term value investing and see Warren Buffett as the poster boy for it. But did you know that value investing started out very differently from Buffett’s famous investments like See’s Candies, Coca-Cola and American Express? To know how value investing evolved, we have to start from its intellectual patriarch. Meet Benjamin Graham – the father of value investing. When Graham …
Read MoreBuffett’s Time Line
Warren Buffett is one of the best investor and businessman on earth. Here is a time line of his life (until 1989). Do share what lessons you gleam from it? Buffett Time Line August 30, 1930: Warren Edward Buffett is born to his parents, Howard and Leila Buffett, in Nebraska. 1941: At eleven years old, Warren buys his first stock. He purchases 6 shares of Cities Service preferred stock [3 …
Read MoreVALUE INVESTING – WARREN BUFFETT HAS DONE IT AGAIN!
Dear Value Investors Warren Buffett will be paying US$779 Million to purchase Caixabank’s life insurance operation, VidaCaixa. Caixabank is one of Spain’s stronger lenders, but has been hurt by the collapse in the country’s real estate market. What will Warren gain? VidaCaixa will continue servicing the portfolio, but will be obliged to hand over its cash flows to Berkshire Hathaway. If you have read Berkshire’s Letters to its Shareholders, Warren loves the insurance business as it …
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