As originally
practiced by value investors, stock - picking was something close to a sure thing: you looked for stocks trading close enough to their asset value that they provided a substantial «margin of safety» against loss, and you looked for business fundamentals that offered substantial upside in the future.
Not exact matches
Although
investors could not invest in the Fundamental Index — introduced only 12 years ago
by Arnott, Hsu, and Moore (2005)-- over the entire period, the principle of
value investing has been well understood and
practiced since Graham and Dodd (1934) first endorsed it.
Depositing money on a regular schedule also allows
investors to take advantage of a
practice called «dollar - cost averaging,» considered
by many as a better way to boost investment
value and avoid market volatility.
Well - known
investor Warren Buffett is investing $ 5 billion into Bank of America, which in recent months has been plagued
by legal trouble over its foreclosure
practices and has seen its stock
values plunge.