Top Five Articles from April: Equity Exposure and Margin of Safety
1. The Only Equities Most Investors Should Buy
The only equity exposure most investors should have is in the cheapest, broadest, most tax-efficient index tracker of aggregate world equity markets they can find.
2. Margin of Safety: The Lost Art
Despite history’s greatest investors — Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Bruce Berkowitz, Seth Klarman — stressing the importance of the “margin of safety,” it remains a lost art.
The main strategy for successful interviews — and this is no surprise really — is to spend adequate time preparing. If you know that you are likely to be invited to tell interviewers about yourself and asked to discuss your weaknesses, there is no reason to walk into an interview without having crafted and practiced respectable responses.
4. A View to the Future: Changes in the Investment Industry
By 2030, investment management will be transformed by megatrends that are already reshaping the industry, according to a new study.
5. How to Tell If a CEO Will Manage Capital Well
You need to size up the new CEO of a company in which you have invested heavily. Applying certain behavioral finance dimensions to specific observations regarding his personality, you can arrive at some useful information.
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