Principles

Each week, I read numerous dividend investing blogs. Most of them are authored by savvy investors who have been following their own dividend investing strategies. What is amazing about investing is that there isn’t a single strategy that trumps all the others. There are many ways to make money on the stock market. What really matters is that you find the one that works for you. This is probably the hardest part as most investors you encounter will tell you they have the strongest strategy of …

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I first discovered this principle a long time ago when I was doing my bachelor’s degree in Finance. While I spent more time playing Tetris than listening to my teachers, I remembered I stopped everything to listen to this part of the class. The Pareto Principle is named after Vilfredo Pareto, who noticed over 100 years ago that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. The principle itself was not developed by Vilfredo, but was instead developed by Joseph Juran and named …

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Now that the situation in Greece is put back on the oxygen mask for a while, I’ve been reading a lot about the potential contamination problems we could face with regards to Chinese market situation. If you have been following global economic news, you definitely noticed how bad the Chinese market crashed (30% within 2 weeks) after cranking up by 150%. It is fascinating how China manages its finance over the past 10 years. I mean; the country is growing at lightning speed (mind you, its …

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