Not exact matches
Holding information close to the vest has worked as it has gained
big partnerships, Ambar Bhattacharyya, a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners,
who has handled investments in a number of
other healthcare companies (they are not
investors in Theranos), told Tech Insider in April.
It takes effort to see the
bigger picture, but it's an effort well worth making, if only so we don't become like most
investors (
other than Buffett)
who freak out and sell when the market is on the way down, or fear missing out and buy when the market is nearing its peak.
The famously successful
investor Warren Buffett —
who has raked in billions guided by his motto to «Be fearful when
others are greedy, and greedy when
others are fearful» — probably took a
big loss like the rest of us after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union last week.
In the meantime, Anderson Financial Strategies» Anderson and
other advisors
who still value active management caution
investors that trying to pick successful actively managed funds on their own is a
big job.
Other value managers are buying stocks at higher valuations, but Chou is a deep - value
investor who tries to find
bigger discounts than his peers.
Among the
others who could be out
big bucks are the funds of John Paulson,
who made billions betting against the housing market, and activist
investor Jeff Ubben, whose ValueAct fund had been selling shares of Valeant this year but still owned nearly 15 million shares of the company as of the middle of 2015.
But at least one analyst
who tracks
big Wall Street firms» bonds says there may be an even
bigger problem:
Investors, pressured by the need to generate income, simply don't care whether the banks are too
big to fail — one way or the
other.
For every
investor that hitched their wagons to Amazon.com back in the late 90's there were several
others who made
big bets on companies such as Pets.com.
The decline in the market appears to have coincided with the publishing and circulation of a research note from JP Morgan strategist Marko Kolanovic,
who among
other things noted that the recent decline in stock correlations we've seen mirrors action
investors saw before
big sell - offs in 1994 and 2001.
The difference with this (which makes it somewhat better IMO) is that in every
other growing market it's the
big time, industrial
investors who get in early and then they profit when normal people start flocking in.
Unlike
other discount brokerages such as Scotia iTrade or TD Direct Investing
who tend to hold frequent
investor education events, Questrade appears to be leaning towards doing less frequent but
bigger events.
Now don't think I'm referring to individual
investors, though they do dumb things too; I'm really referring to those lemmings
who get paid
big bucks to lose manage
other people's money.
What did get more certain, however, is that
other discount brokerages,
big and small, have now got their work cut out for them to compete against two award winning brands
who will continue to be pushing harder to win the business of Canadian
investors.
The first thing I did was to start searching forums, particularly on
Bigger Pockets and here on Turnkey - Reviews, to find
other out of country
investors, and in my case, Australians,
who had successfully invested with turnkey operators in the US.