The best time to invest in stocks is when blood is running on the street. Or to put it another way bear markets are great time to pick up quality names at cheap prices. While everything is falling day after day it takes courage to jump into the waters. While buying stocks when prices are …
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Diversification is one of the simplest ways to be successful in equity investing. Diversification can take many forms. For example, one can hold a mix of stocks, bonds, gold, real estate and cash. Or it is possible to diversify across many types of equities such as domestic and foreign or emerging, developed and frontier markets. …
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Investing in dividend stocks is a wise strategy for many reasons including the fact that dividends alone account for one-third of the S&P 500’s Total Return from 1960 to 2019. So though the dividend yield is small for most US stocks relative to other developed markets they are still important from a long-term wealth building …
Baillie Gifford, the Scottish investment manager has sold half of its take in electric car market Tesla(TSLA), according to an article at CityWire, UK. BG was the largest institutional investor in Tesla with holdings of about 40 million shares or about 8% of the company at one time last year. It is not surprising that …
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One of the questions on many investors’ mind these days is this: Are Value Stocks Better Than Growth Stocks? Or is value investing dead? This is not surprising since 2020 has been the year for growth. Growth-oriented stocks in the tech, renewable energy, Electric Vehicle(EV), internet retail, etc. industries vastly out-performed value equities. Some of …
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