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Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, John Kerry, Paul Ryan, John Boehner... maybe even YOUR own Congressman already owns many of these stocks.
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Perception: What Investors Believe Happened S&P 500 Annual Returns 1 vs. Percentage of Investors Who Said the Market Was Down or Flat.
The chart illustrates the gap between investor perceptions and actual market performance. The S&P 500 Index was down dramatically in 2008 and that may have impacted the perceptions of market performance in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 by participants in Franklin Templeton's annual Investor Sentiment Survey2,3,4,5
This chart is for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect the performance of any Franklin, Templeton or Mutual Series fund.
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The chart illustrates the gap between investor perceptions and actual market performance. The S&P 500 Index was down dramatically in 2008 and that may have impacted the perceptions of market performance in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 by participants in Franklin Templeton's annual Investor Sentiment Survey2,3,4,5
WHAT SHAPES YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE MARKET?
Certainly there's been no shortage of troubling, dramatic events in recent years. From the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy to the Madoff scandal to the Gulf oil spill to the Japanese tsunami...it's understandable that investors might feel the hit parade of disheartening news isn't going to let up.
The chart illustrates the gap between investor perceptions and actual market performance. The S&P 500 Index was down dramatically in 2008 and that may have impacted the perceptions of market performance in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 by participants in Franklin Templeton's annual Investor Sentiment Survey2,3,4,5
This chart is for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect the performance of any Franklin, Templeton or Mutual Series fund.
Past performance does not guarantee future results. The chart illustrates the gap between investor perceptions and actual market performance. The S&P 500 Index was down dramatically in 2008 and that may have impacted the perceptions of market performance in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 by participants in Franklin Templeton's annual Investor Sentiment Survey2,3,4,5
WHAT SHAPES YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE MARKET?
Certainly there's been no shortage of troubling, dramatic events in recent years. From the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy to the Madoff scandal to the Gulf oil spill to the Japanese tsunami...it's understandable that investors might feel the hit parade of disheartening news isn't going to let up.
The list of S&P 500 index stocks can be monitored online via Financial Times. com to read the latest changes of the 500 stocks that determine the index of Dow Jones. Many savvy Investors have been investing in a 100% Principal Protected Regular Saving Fund based on S&P 500 index for a specific 15 years period or option to take profits on S&P 500 performances at any period. This long term Principal Protected product is offered by Investors Trust, a registered Cayman islands offshore investment company with the Labuan Financial Authority in Malaysia. Why savvy RICH Malaysians wanted to hedge their assets investment in USD, GBP, EURO etc ? One good reason is majority parents inspired their children to be educated overseas in USA or UK and they started to allocate 10% savings in a 100% Principal Protected Regular Savings in their Education Planning in foreign currencies investment.
What causes the MYR depreciated ?
During the Asisan financial crisis 1997/98 had saw many parents and JPA govt recalled their studends in overseas when our MYR slumped below MYR4.80 against the USD1.00, as such many overseas students in Asia had suffered badly in terms of their education have to be completed locally in their home countries.
Below is the latest news about MYR ringgit has slumped to lower against USD as source reported by the Wall Street Journal
The Malaysian ringgit has slumped to a three-year low as the country's exports decline, its economy slows and global investors turn choosier about emerging-market assets. The ringgit has dropped 8.8% against the U.S. dollar since May 9, making it one of Asia's worst-performing currencies, as global investors withdrew fled emerging markets due to concern that the U.S. would soon begin to wind down its aggressive monetary stimulus. It was last trading at around 3.2332 against the U.S. dollar. But Malaysia faces its own struggles. Its economy grew at its slowest pace in three years during the first quarter, while falling exports have worsened its trade balance and foreigners own a high level of government debt—a bearish combination for a country's currency. On Tuesday, Fitch Ratings lowered the country's credit-rating outlook to negative from stable, citing its public finances as a "key rating weakness."
Leading analysts, including the World Bank, have said the country is at risk of recording its first current-account deficit since 1997. Last week, the World Bank became the latest to cut its forecast for Malaysia's economy this year, predicting growth of 5.1%, down from 5.6% last year. Among countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia is most vulnerable to outflows in the event of a "sudden stop" to U.S. monetary stimulus, known as quantitative easing, because it saw the heaviest inflows as a percentage of gross domestic product, according to Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.
The volume of portfolio inflows into Malaysia since the first phase of quantitative easing began in 2009 has been more than three times that seen from 2004-2009, and a significant portion has gone into Malaysian government debt. The high level of foreign ownership of government debt—49.5% at the end of May—is now a "point of vulnerability," said Hak Bin Chua, BoAML's Asean economist. The worry is that the country's worsening economic fundamentals, as well as a stronger U.S. dollar and higher U.S. Treasury yields, will prompt foreign investors to dump Malaysian government bonds.
"In the current environment, fundamentals are becoming increasingly important for long-term investors and [although] there's a concern over Malaysia's narrowing trade balance and current-account surplus, we see this as temporary as the weakening ringgit will boost exports and in turn rebalance the currency," said Yeah Kim Leng, chief economist at RAM Holdings Bhd, one of two Malaysia-based debt-rating agencies.
Traders say the central bank has refrained recently from intervening to strengthen the ringgit. They are also betting the ringgit will fall against the Singapore dollar, allowing them to avoid exposure to the U.S. dollar. The ringgit is down 7.7% against the Singapore dollar since May 27, to a 15-year low, and has shed around 1.5% since Thursday. Part of the reason for recent ringgit weakness may be the Malaysian central bank's conspicuous absence from the spot currency market, said Goh Rong Reng, a foreign-exchange dealer at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB in Singapore. He suggests the government might be allowing the currency to weaken to boost exports and improve the trade balance.
Write to Ewen Chew at [email protected] and Jason Ng at [email protected]
Read more The WSJ and other local reports :
What causes the MYR depreciated ?
During the Asisan financial crisis 1997/98 had saw many parents and JPA govt recalled their studends in overseas when our MYR slumped below MYR4.80 against the USD1.00, as such many overseas students in Asia had suffered badly in terms of their education have to be completed locally in their home countries.
Below is the latest news about MYR ringgit has slumped to lower against USD as source reported by the Wall Street Journal
The Malaysian ringgit has slumped to a three-year low as the country's exports decline, its economy slows and global investors turn choosier about emerging-market assets. The ringgit has dropped 8.8% against the U.S. dollar since May 9, making it one of Asia's worst-performing currencies, as global investors withdrew fled emerging markets due to concern that the U.S. would soon begin to wind down its aggressive monetary stimulus. It was last trading at around 3.2332 against the U.S. dollar. But Malaysia faces its own struggles. Its economy grew at its slowest pace in three years during the first quarter, while falling exports have worsened its trade balance and foreigners own a high level of government debt—a bearish combination for a country's currency. On Tuesday, Fitch Ratings lowered the country's credit-rating outlook to negative from stable, citing its public finances as a "key rating weakness."
Leading analysts, including the World Bank, have said the country is at risk of recording its first current-account deficit since 1997. Last week, the World Bank became the latest to cut its forecast for Malaysia's economy this year, predicting growth of 5.1%, down from 5.6% last year. Among countries in Southeast Asia, Malaysia is most vulnerable to outflows in the event of a "sudden stop" to U.S. monetary stimulus, known as quantitative easing, because it saw the heaviest inflows as a percentage of gross domestic product, according to Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.
The volume of portfolio inflows into Malaysia since the first phase of quantitative easing began in 2009 has been more than three times that seen from 2004-2009, and a significant portion has gone into Malaysian government debt. The high level of foreign ownership of government debt—49.5% at the end of May—is now a "point of vulnerability," said Hak Bin Chua, BoAML's Asean economist. The worry is that the country's worsening economic fundamentals, as well as a stronger U.S. dollar and higher U.S. Treasury yields, will prompt foreign investors to dump Malaysian government bonds.
"In the current environment, fundamentals are becoming increasingly important for long-term investors and [although] there's a concern over Malaysia's narrowing trade balance and current-account surplus, we see this as temporary as the weakening ringgit will boost exports and in turn rebalance the currency," said Yeah Kim Leng, chief economist at RAM Holdings Bhd, one of two Malaysia-based debt-rating agencies.
Traders say the central bank has refrained recently from intervening to strengthen the ringgit. They are also betting the ringgit will fall against the Singapore dollar, allowing them to avoid exposure to the U.S. dollar. The ringgit is down 7.7% against the Singapore dollar since May 27, to a 15-year low, and has shed around 1.5% since Thursday. Part of the reason for recent ringgit weakness may be the Malaysian central bank's conspicuous absence from the spot currency market, said Goh Rong Reng, a foreign-exchange dealer at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB in Singapore. He suggests the government might be allowing the currency to weaken to boost exports and improve the trade balance.
Write to Ewen Chew at [email protected] and Jason Ng at [email protected]
Read more The WSJ and other local reports :
- Malaysia Trade Data Adds to Unease ( WSJ August 5, 2013 )
- Ringgit to remain pressured in near term ( The Sun Daily )
- Ringgit expects to recover next week ( Business Times)
The Secrets of Warren Buffett in Stock Investment:
1. When you own stock in a great biz, keep it. If someone wants to sell you more at a bargain price, buy it.
2. Once you get into the right biz, you can let everyone else worry about the stock market.
3. Investors were buying stocks based on the action of the stock rather than on the quality of the biz that the stock represented.
4. Don’t dwell on the price of stocks, but study the underlying business. Buy biz, not stocks.
5. It was a volatile stock market but not a volatile business.
6. Investing is never emotional, always business like. Keep your head at all times; recognizing that acting on emotion can kill a stock market portfolio.
7. Don’t think about “stock in the short term.” Think about “biz in the long term.”
8. Seize opportunities created by stock market folly.
9. Avoid diversification, instead investing in a few enduring companies with predictable biz model.
10. Embrace bear market, taking advantage of the opportunity they provide to buy when everyone is selling.
A Fool will sell the winning stock. The Wise investor sell the losing stock and keep the Winner
1. When you own stock in a great biz, keep it. If someone wants to sell you more at a bargain price, buy it.
2. Once you get into the right biz, you can let everyone else worry about the stock market.
3. Investors were buying stocks based on the action of the stock rather than on the quality of the biz that the stock represented.
4. Don’t dwell on the price of stocks, but study the underlying business. Buy biz, not stocks.
5. It was a volatile stock market but not a volatile business.
6. Investing is never emotional, always business like. Keep your head at all times; recognizing that acting on emotion can kill a stock market portfolio.
7. Don’t think about “stock in the short term.” Think about “biz in the long term.”
8. Seize opportunities created by stock market folly.
9. Avoid diversification, instead investing in a few enduring companies with predictable biz model.
10. Embrace bear market, taking advantage of the opportunity they provide to buy when everyone is selling.
A Fool will sell the winning stock. The Wise investor sell the losing stock and keep the Winner
Published on 5 Jan 2013
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, first published in 1949, is a widely acclaimed book on value investing, an investment approach Graham began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd. Famous investor Warren Buffett described it as "by far the best book on investing ever written",[1] a sentiment echoed by other Graham disciples such as Irving Kahn and Walter Schloss. More interesting stuff http://onionjokes.blogspot.com/ Listen and learn the intelligent investor videos ( 3 part series below ). Just do it.
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, first published in 1949, is a widely acclaimed book on value investing, an investment approach Graham began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd. Famous investor Warren Buffett described it as "by far the best book on investing ever written",[1] a sentiment echoed by other Graham disciples such as Irving Kahn and Walter Schloss. More interesting stuff http://onionjokes.blogspot.com/ Listen and learn the intelligent investor videos ( 3 part series below ). Just do it.
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