{"id":39966,"date":"2023-07-24T19:43:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T23:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/investing\/investing-hints-from-seven-investment-masters\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T19:43:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T23:43:23","slug":"investing-hints-from-seven-investment-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=39966","title":{"rendered":"Investing Hints From Seven Investment Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You can\u2019t teach genius. But you can learn a lot from observing geniuses at work. Here are a few nuggets of investment wisdom from seven master investors.<\/p>\n

John Neff<\/h2>\n

The manager of the Windsor Fund for three decades, John Neff was a quintessential value investor. \u201cTo us, ugly stocks were often beautiful,” he wrote in his book On Investing.<\/em> \u201cIf Windsor\u2019s portfolio looked good we weren\u2019t doing our job.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was happy to be greatly overweight, or severely underweight, any of the major market sectors. For example, while oil stocks were about 12% of the Standard & Poor\u2019s 500, his holdings went as high as about 25% and as low as 1%.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn disrepute, we grabbed them,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIn favor, we sold them.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Templeton<\/h2>\n

Sir John Templeton founded the Templeton Growth Fund in 1954, and it boasted outstanding performance for more than three decades. A pioneer in international investing, he said that investing worldwide gave him more opportunities to find bargains.<\/p>\n

As an example, he invested heavily in Japan in the mid-1960s, before it was recognized as a world economic power. \u201cInvest at the point of maximum pain,\u201d he liked to say.<\/p>\n

He warned against selling a stock \u2013 or even worse, a whole portfolio \u2013 when it was down. \u201cIf you sell your investments just because of a temporary decline, you end up making the loss permanent,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Templeton also emphasized the importance of humility. \u201cAn investors who has all the answers doesn\u2019t even understand all the questions,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n

Warren Buffett<\/h2>\n

\u201cBe fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.\u201d That\u2019s probably the most famous quote from Warren Buffett. The chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
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\u201cPrice is what you pay,\u201d Buffett said. \u201cValue is what you get.\u201d<\/p>\n

People who poured money into the speculative favorite of 2021 might want to heed another Buffett pearl: \u201cThe worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender that growth, and then earns little or no money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phil Carret<\/h2>\n

Phil Carret was one of the pio0neers of the mutual-fund industry. I like his warning against overuse of borrowed funds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile a bank may be perfectly willing to lend [an investor] 75% to 80% of the value of sound marketable stocks, he would be very foolish to use such borrowing power up to the hilt.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his book The Art of Speculation<\/em> Carret suggested reviewing holdings about every six months. More often than that, he said, will likely make an investor \u201cfall into the evil and usually fatal habit\u201d of excessive trading.<\/p>\n

David Dreman<\/h2>\n

A successful mutual fund manager in the 1980s and 1990s, David Dreman helped to popularize value investing. He is very interested in heuristics \u2013 mental shortcuts that people use to reach conclusions when faced with insufficient or confusing information.<\/p>\n

One is the \u201cavailability\u201d heuristic. Things that stick in one\u2019s mind assume exaggerated importance. \u201cThis is why we think deaths by shark attack are more common than deaths from pieces of airplanes falling on people.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was also interested in how people draw conclusions from small samples that may just be chance. \u201cFor example, investors regularly flock to mutual funds that are better performing for a year or a few years,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Yet, \u201cfinancial researchers have shown that the \u201chot\u201d funds in one time period are often the poorest performers in another.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter Lynch<\/h2>\n

Renowned for his success running the Fidelity Magellan Fund, Peter Lynch shared some of his ideas in the book One Up On Wall Street<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lynch says that more money has been lost by anticipating recessions than in the recessions themselves. \u201cOf course I\u2019d love to be warned before we do go into a recession, so I could adjust my portfolio. But the odds of my figuring it out are nil,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Lynch claims that individual investors can do better than institutions, because they can invest in things they know. \u201cIf you invest like an institution, you\u2019re doomed to perform like one, which in many cases isn\u2019t very well,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Martin Zweig<\/h2>\n

Marty Zweig was a hedge-fund manager, newsletter pundit and author of Winning on Wall Street.<\/em> He aims to outperform the market with five out of every eight stock picks, he said, \u201cnot a bad batting average.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zweig used a multi-factor approach to picking stocks. He wanted earnings strength, a stock price that was reasonable in light of the earnings growth rate, and insider buying, or at least the lack of heavy selling by insiders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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