Sentences with phrase «because as a small investor»

In my own personal portfolios, I hold XSB because as a small investor bond commissions are too steep to justify directly investing in them.

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Ironically, the trend of companies raising less capital actually enhances the importance of the initial round buy - in (both because that initial buy - in becomes less diluted meaning the first round price was that much more important and because even if an angel wants to buy up more in later rounds they'll have less of a chance to do so; I also believe that along with the trend of companies raising less capital we're also seeing earlier and somewhat smaller average exits — also enhancing the value of initial round buy - ins as fewer investors are truly swinging for the proverbial fence).

In 2013, Moody's Investor Service, a bond credit rating agency, released a report which concluded that a small but growing number of school districts face severe financial stress as charter schools proliferate, specifically because these districts can't reduce their costs as quickly as they lose revenue.

Balanced funds are great because they don't require investors to figure out a host of complicated considerations, such as how much of your portfolio should be weighted in small cap versus international equity funds.

So although many value investors look at small caps because they feel this is where they can gain an informational advantage, I think taking advantage of this «disgust» factor is just as effective and is an important arrow to have in the quiver.

The MOI interview with MITIMCO team consists of many nuggets of wisdom like» The most common mistake we see is when an investor makes small compromises in the early days of the partnership in ways that limit future success» and «We've observed that almost all the very successful and established firms we work with turn away large amounts of capital — they even did so when they were small, by the way — because they understand the need to apply the same high bar to their choice of partners as they do their choice of investments».

Meridian Small Cap Growth (MSAGX) Small growth stocks have been described as «a failed asset class» because of the inability of most professional investors to control the sector's downside well enough to benefit from its upside.

A lot of investors such as William Bernstein (author of the Four Pillars of Investing) himself believe that small caps will outperform larger companies mainly because they have a higher risk profile and have done so in the past.

Small investors sometimes don't diversify as completely because of minimum investment thresholds or attention issues, but that doesn't mean they don't want to hold high investment income assets.

After reading the reviews at Amazon and Costco I learned long time users, like myself, of TurboTax are jumping ship because TT Deluxe no longer supports small investors and businesses as it has in years past, without upgrading.

Financial institutions that traditionally cater to real estate investors involved in relatively small deals, such as credit unions and local banks, are reluctant to make loans because of new government regulations that govern lending, Yun said.

«We chose Stessa as our first acquisition because its innovative product fills a gap in the market for small - to - medium investors.»