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Horse Race Betting and Mid-life Money Revelations

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 16, 2016
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In this week’s Top 5, we discover what we can learn as investors from horse racing, the inner workings of our cognitive behavior on our investments, and key investing principles we should all know. All this and more…

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Indonesia Is on the Verge of Analysts Calling It a “Buy”

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 15, 2016

If we begin with consensus recommendations, we can see that the bottom-up country relative consensus recommendations and analysts’ recommendations have been gradually improving over the past five years. Certain analysts are now calling the country a “Buy”.

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Invest Smartly, Choose Stocks for the Long Run

By Andrew Stotz | Sep 14, 2016

Book review of Stocks for the Long Run: I used this book as a desk reference, long before I had access to charts and data online. It helped me understand what type of long-term return that I should expect.

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Thailand Is Currently a ‘Buy’ in Asia

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 13, 2016

Analysts have had positive recommendations on Thailand for five years, and it remains a “Buy” in Asia. The 2016 estimated upside has already been reached, and the 12-month forward is at 3%, since the SET index has shown strong performance year-to-date.

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Recommendations on Singapore Have Seen a Massive Fall

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 12, 2016

Consensus recommendations on Singapore have gone from a “Buy” in the 2014-2015 period to the current recommendation of “Sell”—a massive fall.

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Fantasy Investing and Why You Shouldn’t Poke a Sleeping Bear

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 9, 2016
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This week’s Top 5 examines how emerging markets are becoming increasingly attractive, how fantasy ruins investing (and football apparently), and the reality behind our vision of hedge funders. All this and more…

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Analysts Remain Very Optimistic on India

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 8, 2016

In the bottom-up country consensus recommendations India hasn’t been a “Buy” in Asia for the past five years. Recently, however, it has gotten stronger recommendations and moved to “Neutral” from “Sell.”

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Vietnam Dairy Products (Vinamilk) – Fan Request

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 7, 2016

Vietnam on Demand: A fan requested to see the World Class Benchmarking of Vinamilk, so here it is.

Vinamilk is beating 531 of 590 large Consumer Staples companies globally. Vinamilk’s strengths are Profit margin and Sales growth while its weakness is Asset utilization.

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Hoa Phat Group – Fan Request

By Become a Better Investor | Sep 7, 2016

Vietnam on Demand: A fan requested to see the World Class Benchmarking of Hoa Phat Group, so here it is.

Hoa Phat Group is World Class in every measure of performance with a really strong profit margin.

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Demystifying Investment Lingo – How to Buy Stocks

By Andrew Stotz | Sep 6, 2016

Book review of How to Buy Stocks: The value of this book for beginners is that it explains the main different investment options and what to expect when you put your money in them

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