Aug 25 2010
Investment Advice
Whether you are planning to invest your money in building a business, real estate, stock, or any other asset, vehicle or investment instrument, we present below some investment advice that we could take into account:
Search opportunities
To find good investment opportunities, you go out looking for them, not just wait for opportunities to appear, but you must be willing to look.
This involves researching the market, analyzing trends, find first-hand information through contacts inform you about new investments that are going out and that few know, and so on.
Invest conservatively
You have to invest conservatively, i.e., find long-term investments, low risk, secure your future, rather than seeking a quick buck.
This does not mean you can invest aggressively and seek short-term investments, but you should give priority to conservative investments, i.e. most of your money should be invested in such investments.
Find good investments
For an investment is considered a good chance, it must meet three criteria:
* Must be below its value, for example, a property that is below the market average.
* Should provide a good potential for profitability, for example, a paper asset that offers a good interest rate.
* Must have great potential to increase their value in the future, for example, an action that has great potential to increase its value.
Analyze before investing
Before investing your money you should analyze well the asset, vehicle or instrument in which you are about to invest, which means to gather all possible information about it, and then analyze that information.
You must be able to determine as accurately as possible their profitability, their performance, payback period of capital, and risk and, thus, whether the investment is really an opportunity.
Never invest in something you do not understand at all, or something that you took your time to analyze it.
Do not analyze too much
You look good investment before you invest, but not to the extreme of being too cautious and want to inform, analyze, prepare and plan things too much.
The reason for this is that you could fall into what is known as “paralysis by analysis” and allow the opportunity and what is worse, let someone else take it.
You analyze before investing, and tell you the conviction to invest; you should do it without losing time.
Have an exit strategy
When you invest you should always have an exit strategy, either to avoid the risk of losing your money, or if things do not go as planned.
For example, you might decide you will sell your investment at some point; you retire to lose a certain amount, or change the rotation of your business if your main idea will not get good results.
Do not invest all the money
For more preparation, analysis or planning you do, the risk that your investment gets bad results will always be present.
Therefore, you should never invest all your money in one asset or investment vehicle, but you should always retain a significant portion of your money in case things do not go as planned.
Diversify
Do not spend any money on one thing, but it distributed at various assets, or investment vehicles.
Thus, you get a better return on your money, but above all, will reduce the risk that you can lose all or much of it, because for that to happen, more of your investments would have to have bad results at the same time.
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