Sunday, July 12, 2009

Topics for Future Discourse

Essential Services for Private Investors

Tips, Ideas, Strategies to Win Big in the Stock Market.

Margin of Safety

"Research reduces risk" .. what the smart investor must do to win (not luck, prayers, insider tips, or stratospheric IQ)

Understanding Risk. Pure risk, speculative risk, and reducing them both.

Emotions - their role in our decision making. Making them work in our favour v/s the roller coater. Not being our own enemy, sabotaging our own success.

Fortune favours the brave. Taking the right "risks" at the right time.... without TIMING the market.

The odds. Investing is a game of chance. How to align probabilities in our favour!

Voting machine v/s weighing machine

Profiting from the market's mistakes.

Your advisors - and their true COSTS.

COSTS involved with investing and trading - and their ultimate absolute effect in the long run. Questions to ask - "Can I afford NOT to... ?" and "Does it cost or does it PAY?"

The stars of the investment field ... our heros : warren buffett, philip & ken fisher, peter lynch, benjamin graham.

Our bibles - the intelligent investor, one up on wall street, essays of warren buffett, common stocks - uncommon profits

The meaning of Investing. Investor v/s Speculator / Gambler / Punter.

Critical numbers of our lives, and what to do about them. The math.

The need to "Aware - Compare - Select - Manage" v/s "be convinced and sold".

Featured products in the market for investment, whole life protection, endowment, critical illness protection.

Allocating CPF - why, in what, how much. Plus: latest changes, trends, caveats

Valuation.

Goal Discovery.

Education.

Terms that Matter - Your Financial Vocabulary.

Contrarian - NEVER follow the crowd. Walk to your own beat!

Know what you buy, love what you buy. Money is made when you buy!

When to sell?

Why "buy and hold"? and why NOT!?

Rebalancing ... the MAGIC portfolio!

Dollar Cost Averaging i.e. Regular Savings Plans

The simple elegance of Unit Trusts

Ratios-based investing / Ratios-based Financial Planning

Mistakes people make: the top 10 in financial planning, and how to avoid them.

Trading v/s Investing

Technical Analysis v/s Fundamental Analysis

Quantitative Analysis v/s Qualitative Analysis

What looks good right now ... exciting investment opportunities that deserve your attention

Pitfalls of not investing at all! - What are the options... Are guaranteed returns possible? Advice for the risk-averse investor

Protection ... before any other investment

Defensive Investing v/s Entrepreneurial investing

Issues such as ESTATE planning and taxation