If you work with a margin of safety, and buy companies that will produce free cash flow, and can grow free cash flow, you will be
safer than most investors, and probably more successful as well.
Not exact matches
While it remains unknown to
most investors, it is in fact
safer than outright stock ownership because the
investor's downside risk is offset by premium income received for selling the call provision.
As stock investing generally requires a very detailed market study and is a very volatile investment in terms of return of investment,
investors, especially the new
investors out there are now turning to investing in bonds, as bond investments are
safer than most of the other forms of investments and you need not constantly worry about prices going high or low.
Implied inflation fell by more
than 250 basis points in the 2007 - 2009 period, as
investors piled into the
safest,
most liquid Treasury bonds, and began to contemplate long - term deflation.
Writing in Institutional
Investor in January 1968, no less an industry guru
than Charles D. Ellis, then an analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette, concluded that «short - term investing may actually be
safer than long - term investing sometimes, and the price action of the stocks may be more important
than the «fundamentals» on which
most research is based.»
In the context in which it appeared, however (that is, in a world in which
most investors and indeed even
most investing experts have shown a woeful lack of appreciation of the dangers of the Old School
safe withdrawal rate studies) I view this article as one that does more to add to the problem
than to diminish it.
In that case you might argue that they should invest a small portion of the portfolio in
safe investments and the rest can be a higher risk portfolio because the time horizon for
most of the portfolio is that of the relatives who inherit the money which would normally be a lot longer
than that of the original
investor.
While it remains unknown to
most investors, it is in fact
safer than outright stock ownership because the
investor's downside risk is offset by premium income received for selling the call -LSB-...]