While I have been an entrepreneur for more than 20 years of my life, I have been an angel investor for less than one.
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This is as investor I will know that if I have a personal cash shortage I will be able to sell out to another investor for something close to fair-value with a relatively short waiting time.
The challenge with restitution, the government has argued, would be that it would be too great a burden to hunt down all of the investors because most of them are in the U.K. Had I been an investor who lost money, I would have spoken up a long time ago!
In my 20-plus years managing money I have not met a single investor who put all of their cash into a broad market index, ad infinitum.
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As a conservative investor, I have found good ideas that allow me to participate in the sector without betting on unknown quantities and opaque asset and liability statements.
As I have always said, a smart investor identifies pain points and looks for companies positioned to capitalize on them.
What I am saying as a 30-year investor, I think people on Wall Street have just so totally lost track of honesty.
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Before long, I did have those licenses myself, I fired Sam, and I began my own journey as an individual investor, discovering that my story was neither new nor unique.
As a Warren Buffett-style investor, I am happy to report that I have consistently beaten the market over the years.
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In my latest book, The Power of Passive Investing, I summarized several timing studies and conclude that these strategies have reduced investor return by about 1.5 percent annually since 2001.
Having looked at quite a few portfolios, I have often found that the actual asset mix is much different than what the investor intended.
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Whether your call yourself an investor or a long-term buyer, whatever, I think you have to be a market timer.
When I started in business journalism in the mid-1980s, news of an activist investor taking a stake would have put a company in play essentially the same effect one gets when dropping a piece of meat into a pool of piranha.
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While Buffett is usually thought of as a value investor, the strategy I base on his approach has a big growth component, looking for firms that have decade-long histories of increasing EPS with few annual declines.
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