Investing: Special Topics

Excellent investment analysis starts with high-quality investment information. You can't expect excellent analysis using lacklustre data.

When assessing investment merit, qualitative investment factors are just as, and sometimes, more important than, quantitative factors.

Some companies may resort to financial dishonesty as a way to downplay weaknesses or overstate strengths, potentially harming investors.

Sometimes it's better to be approximately right than precisely wrong. When making investment decisions, precision is not always needed.

Investors are inundated with numerical data, meaning they need to be sufficiently skilled in math in order to get the insights they need.

Making an investment doesn't mean other companies will sit still. Competitors will always look for new ways to attract investment.

Companies in the same industries are very similar to one another, so an understanding of a given industry may be beneficial to investors.

Many investors want superior investment yields, but is outsized yield synonymous with excellent investment merit? Not necessarily.

Market timing and time in the market may sound similar, but they represent two very different mentalities with very different results.

Investor learning is crucial to every investor's success. However, many investors quickly forget that learning is a continuous process.