Deliberate Confusion Behind the Stock Market & the Rise of the Independent Investor
By STRIDE
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“Investing is really difficult and confusing; you need a good investment manager if you’re going to make the best returns.” At least that’s what we’re all supposed to believe.
In reality, independent investors are making great returns on their investments every day. They are selecting solid opportunities, receiving substantial dividends and saving a fortune in fees. Their secret? Realising that the most confusing barrier to the best returns is confusion itself.
Check out any investment arm of any bank and the language alone can make your head spin. Without a degree in financial jargon how can we hope to wade through the multitudinous opportunities to find good investments that pay the returns we want? Should we invest in stocks or bonds? Which companies offer the best returns for minimal risk? What’s algorithmic trading? A shadow bank?
Surely it’s best to use an investment adviser, someone who understands and can translate for us? Isn’t that the smart thing to do?
The value of financial assets under management rose to an all time high of US $70 trillion at the end of 2013. While every piece of marketing literature you read about asset management services will expound the benefits they bring investors, these products are designed to make money for institutions, not individuals.
It’s time to trust your gut and lose the doubts: investing can be simple and the best person to manage your investments is you. Financial professionals want investors to feel stupid because they need us to need them.
But, to quote Warren Buffett, “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.”
In this eBook we explore the deliberately confusing world of finance, examine how asset managers are profiting from peddling the perception of their safety in a dangerous world and learn how independent investors are doing it better for themselves.
STRIDE
STRIDE is a research tool that helps independent investors select stock based on the principles and dimensions of 3D value investing.STRIDE is the creation of brothers Scott and Dale Nursten.These entrepreneurs have worked with many international businesses and investments during their careers, with specific ties to technology, change management, food production, marketing and finance. They have succeeded consistently in generating value in every business they’ve been involved with.Dale and Scott began working on STRIDE in 2008 purely as a means of managing their personal investments. What started as a spreadsheet has since grown into a web-based tool that analyses data from over 40,000 companies worldwide.
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Deliberate Confusion Behind the Stock Market & the Rise of the Independent Investor - STRIDE
Deliberate Confusion Behind the Stock Market
& the Rise of the Independent Investor
Designed & Compiled by STRIDE
Copyright © 2014 STRIDE. All Rights Reserved.
Content
Introduction
The Deliberate Confusion That Keeps Us in the Dark
- Fedspeak: Why it Pays to Keep Us All Befuddled
• Beyond Fedspeak
- Beneath the Skin and Between the Layers of Confusion
- Trust Me, I’m a Banker
- So What Can We Trust?
• Behind the Tautological Textual Towers of the Financial Industry
- Who’s Making the Most of Your Money?
- Generating the Best Returns for Whom?
• The Changing Face and Pace of Wall Street
- Trading at the Speed of Light
• The Lengthening Shadow of Shadow Banking
- The Pools are Even Darker
The Rise of the Independent Investor
- Know What You Need to Know
- Fundamental Analysis, Valuation and Timing
- Selecting the Right Software
- Don’t Wait to Invest: Invest, Then Wait
- Re-invest Instead of Paying Fees
Becoming an Independent Investor
References
Introduction
"Investing is really difficult and confusing; you need a good investment manager if you’re going to make the best returns."
At least that’s what we’re all supposed to believe.
In reality, independent investors are making great returns on their investments every day. They are selecting solid opportunities, receiving substantial dividends and saving a fortune in fees. Their secret? Realising that the most confusing barrier to the best returns is confusion itself.
30-year retirements are becoming common. The money we accrue during our working lives must now stretch to support us for longer than ever before. Inevitably, we’re looking for ways to invest our money to make it grow.
But what a perilous place the world of investing can be.
Check out any investment arm of any bank and the language alone can make your head spin. Without a degree in financial jargon how can we hope to wade through the multitudinous opportunities to find good investments that pay the returns we want? Should we invest in stocks or bonds? Which companies offer the best returns for minimal risk? What’s algorithmic trading? A shadow bank?
Surely it’s best to use an investment adviser, someone who understands and can translate for us? Isn’t that the smart thing to do?
The value of financial assets under management rose