Investing – What Matters
Much of investing is about common sense.
It is the consistent and disciplined application of the principles that sets a good investor apart.
You might have heard us talk about seeking out “out-of-favour” stocks and eschewing what the market considers “fashionable”. You might have read about the “divergence between a company’s intrinsic value and its share price”. But what does all this mean? And how is it put into practice?
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