Posts Tagged ‘Market’

Sequoia, one of the most successful Venture Capital firm in the US, recently shared some of their insights and juices in a slide show embedded here-after. Very interesting stuff.
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Lots of very interesting numbers there. Unfortunately it is too US [...]

Busy weeks are following busy weeks lately. I just finished catching up with some of the reading I saved over the past few weeks & came across this “acorn” of wisdom on bull & bear markets. It is an extract from Howard Marks’ most recent memo to his Oaktree investors on March 18, 2008.
Fortunately, one [...]

Interesting read from the Economist – I know I am becoming a fanatic! – Hung, drawn and first-quartered. It may not be their most enlighten or thought challenging article; it simply is a good overview of the current market & the Reader’s comment will be very interesting to follow!

After a painful period, investors face a [...]

We have been chasing money for thousands of years. But the money we are chasing nowaday is quite different from the one used in the old days. As with everything human, we complexified the system over time. We started of with shells, precious metal, banknotes, and are now regularly using credit money. Money is part [...]

We’ve been in a roller-coaster market since a few months. When the markets are so volatile, it is difficult to know when to invest, and when not to. There usually are no right answer. The best way to circumvent this problem is to go cost-averaging.
What is Cost- Averaging?
Aside from its complicated term, it actually [...]