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Do you know anything about this topic? Share your expertise with our thousands of visitors each day by submitting your quality, informative 'Investing' article, and if you become a member we will pay you for your unique and original work (note that all submissions are reviewed by our editors). Your Investing Guide is Michael Russell. Recent articles submitted to your independent guide to Investing 1. Value-investing Tenet - By: Michael Russell What's the difference between the investing concepts of 'margin of safety' and 'one-dollar premise'? The margin of safety refers to the remotest chance of the investor losing the market value of a stock. It is the discount at which the stock is selling below its minimum intrinsic v... Featured ArticleColombo Stock Exchange Share trading in Sri Lanka dates back to 1896 when the Colombo Brokers Association commenced the share trading in limited liability companies which were involved in opening plantations in the country. The establishment of a formal stock exchange in 1985 and the incorporation of the Colombo Stock Exchange marked a milestone in the history of share trading in Sri Lanka. The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) is a company limited by guarantee, and established under the Companies Act No. 17 o ...
Read full story 2. Investing In Reit - By: Michael Russell Proponents of Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) regard them as a separate asset class, given their unique real estate characteristics; high dividend payout, low correlation with stocks and ability to appreciate in value. On an asset allocation, however, it's not advisable to have more than 1... 3. Investing Seminar - By: Michael Russell Flip through the newspaper these days and you will find advertisements with the words 'money', 'wealth', 'rich', 'million', 'debt-free', 'financially freedom' or 'retire early' printed in big, bold letters. When it comes to talking about how to invest and make more money, there is practically ... 4. Investing In Real Estate In A Changing Market - By: Michael Russell It's hard to miss the news reports about how the real estate bubble is bursting. While this may cause panic for homeowners or unseasoned investors, you can still invest in real estate in a changing market. The reason for this is that there really is no ideal market condition that you hav... 5. Investing In Real Estate - Finding Funding - By: Michael Russell No money down real estate investing is possible, but it is not what most new real estate investors think it is. Money is always required to do a deal, no money down means that you don't put any of your own out of pocket funds into the investment. So what do you do when you need funds to ... 6. Investing In Apartment Buildings - By: Michael Russell Investing in real estate makes more millionaires than any other type of investing. Smart investors will have a portfolio of different types of real estate to minimize risk and maximize profits. One area often overlooked by real estate investors is apartment buildings. Some reasons ... 7. Investing In Small Capitalization Companies - By: Michael Russell The term ‘small cap’ refers to companies with relatively small market capitalization. Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the number of outstanding shares of the company by the current price per share. The exact definition of small cap, however, varies among brokerages and fund houses... 8. Investing: Analyzing Eps - By: Michael Russell Earnings Per Share (EPS) refers to net income (profit after tax) divided by outstanding shares. Appearing on income statements, it shows us the earnings of the company after all expenses have been paid off and adjustments made for all depreciation of assets. As a result of accounting gim... 9. Investing: Top-down Or Bottom-up - By: Michael Russell When it comes to investing in good companies, there has been much debate on the top-down and bottom-up approaches. Most fund management companies use the top-down approach and recommend that investors examine the economic and industry outlooks first before deciding on which stocks to purchase.... 10. Investing: Etf And Cef - By: Michael Russell If you're looking for a more cost-effective instrument, you may want to consider exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which have been described by US supporters as revolutionizing the world of investing, with their low expense ratios and ease of transaction. Another pooled-investment tool that shares... 11. Investing For Retirement - The New Way - By: Michael Russell One of the biggest myths in investing funds to your retirement portfolio is that the investor should stick to mainly conservative investments such as bonds and cash reserves. The idea is that as you grow older, you'll need money more readily, so playing it safe is the idea here. Interest... 12. Investing: Rebalancing Your Portfolio - By: Michael Russell The developments in the equity market over the past six months and the many reports on the economic and investing outlook for the year ahead may prompt some of you to consider rebalancing your portfolios. When you rebalance your portfolio, you're reviewing it to determine if your asset allocat... 13. Exchange Traded Funds (etf) - Introduction - By: Michael Russell Think about a mutual fund that can be traded on the stock exchange and provide you with benefits only heard of from tax-friendly investments. Fifteen years ago, this may have been very hard to believe. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are new investments, which offer investors the flexibilit... 14. Investing: A Balancing Fund - By: Michael Russell A common rule of thumb is to maintain cash reserves that cover at least six months of expenses, so how should you invest the excess cash? Guaranteed funds are one option. The thought of protecting your principal is appealing and as the main aim of such funds is to preserve capital, such ... 15. Investing: Ways To Predict Future Cash Flows - By: Michael Russell When investing, the right place to pay for a stock is always vital and also very subjective due to the lack of information as well as difficulty in predicting the future. Basically, there are three main approaches in deriving a company's value, which are income, market and asset. Price-t... 16. Investing In Arts - By: Michael Russell Buying art is considered a 'boutique' investment or something that is off the beaten track. However, is this really the case? Unlike other forms of investment, economic conditions do not affect the art market much. The art scene has its own rhythm, mostly influenced by the artist's... 17. Undisclosed Hidden Costs In Fund Investing - By: Michael Russell With unit trusts investing, definitely, costs do matter. Basically, numerous academic studies over the years have shown that expenses are one of the few reliable indicators of future fund performance. However, does a fund's headline expense ratio reflect its true cost efficiency? T... 18. Investing: Global Property Securities - By: Michael Russell Instead of predicting a decline in the global property securities asset class, which includes property stocks, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other listed property investments around the world, many fund companies, financial planning firms and fund distributors remain pretty hopeful about... 19. Restructure Investment Portfolio - By: Michael Russell The first step in restructuring an investment portfolio is to overcome the emotional hurdle, to deal with the pain of loss and move on. Most investors are unwillingly to consciously take a loss on their personal portfolios. Instead, they prefer to lose money on paper with the hope that t... 20. Investing: Wine - By: Michael Russell Wine investment is not at the top of investors' minds. For some investors, it may be at the back of their minds to keep a few bottles in case the prices appreciate, but no one is explicitly buying wines as an investment. It's very much by chance to those who discover that their wine coll... 21. Bond Investments For The Retail Investor - By: Michael Russell Bond markets have been around for almost as long as equity markets. For most retail investors, bonds are seen as less exciting compared to equities, probably due to the relatively stable nature of bond investments. One can probably even argue that media coverage of stock markets is far m... 22. Investing Strategies: Aggressive And Conservative - By: Michael Russell Investors who have different risk profiles, investment objectives and time frames will adopt different investment strategies in order to achieve a similar result. Basically, there are two types of investors; aggressive and conservative. An aggressive investor will take a shorter time per... 23. Options Trading Basics For The Beginner - By: Michael Russell The mere mention of options trading often brings about connotations of excessive risk and gambling to both novice and experienced investors alike. In reality, this is furthest from the truth, for the effective use of options can be used to generate some income, as well as protect against downs... 24. Structured Products - The New Investment - By: Michael Russell Structured products are a fairly recent innovation to hit the retail investment scene. The promise of certain customized returns in exchange for seemingly limited downside makes this class of investments one of the most attractive on the block today. What are structured products and how ... 25. Investing In Commercial Properties - By: Michael Russell Commercial properties are projects constructed on land that is designated for commercial and/or business purposes. 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