Investment
How "Plagiarizing" Yale’s Investment Strategy Can Make You Rich
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
When I spoke with Jack Meyer, the former head of Harvard University’s endowment, at the offices of Goldman Sachs on Fleet Street in London back in 2009, he was thoroughly chastened by the recent 25%+ drop in the value of Harvard’s endowment. A month or two later, Stanford University’s President John Hennessy, reflecting his Silicon Valley roots, was more optimistic about Stanford’s similar collapse, telling me: “Look, Nick, it’s not the end of the world. It just puts us back to where we were in 2006.” Hennessy’s optimism notwithstanding, the crash of 2008 turned much of the financial world on its head. This included much-vaunted “Yale model” that had made Harvard, Yale and Stanford tens of billions of extra dollars over the past two decades.
Basic Investment Principles For Beginners
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Beginners in investing should begin with some basic objectives and to fully understand them before putting in your first investing portfolio. The followings are some key pointers to guide beginners.
A] Income generation objectives
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This is more concern about current income then capital appreciation overtime. Trading is an aspect to income generation where the time horizon is much shorter.
B] Growth objectives
Investors are concern about capital appreciation and ready to take on a longer term objective. An example will be today market situation is a good time to take on equities or funds position as extreme price bargain is available now.
C] Capital Preservation objectives
Where to Invest Money – Best Alternative Investment 2011-2012
Monday, December 5th, 2011
If you are an average investor and want to invest money in an alternative investment like gold, silver or real estate don’t invest until you know the best investment form to invest in. Where you invest is crucial in 2011, 2012 and beyond because these alternative investments have become volatile. If the markets go against you you’ll want to be able to liquidate your investment quickly and easily.
A few years ago investing money in real estate, precious metals or other commodities was out of the question for most folks. These are called alternative investments, and there were two roadblocks if the average person wanted to invest money there. First, it was complicated and risky to play the commodities markets (and still is). Second, liquidity can be a major issue if you take ownership in the physical form. Have you ever tried to sell a property or silver coins in a hurry? Simply put, it can’t be done at a fair price. That’s called poor liquidity.