Money expert Phil Town on the common investment strategy you need to ditch right now investinyou (In partnership with acorns.)
Town closely follows the investing strategies of Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett's mentor. One of Grahams biggest strategies was value investing — a strategy for picking stocks that investors believe are underperforming or trading below their intrinsic value and therefore considered cheap. Eventually, these stocks will recover and the investor will profit.
President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Freedom to distinguished Americans including Warren Buffett, at the White House, February, 15, 2011 in Washington, DC.Town says that value investing is not popular among fund managers who not only try to outperform the market but each other. "All fund managers are dealing with a very important problem that you don't deal with as an individual investor.
New investors feel intimidated by Wall Street jargon and the perceived effort it takes to understand the markets. But they often don't realize the market is made up of thousands of companies and it's likely they already have an understanding of the business without even looking at a balance sheet. The caveat is that novice investors still have to be willing to"The advantage we have is that you have cash and if a company comes down for a reason, you understand.
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