Tools for Finding Safer Shares (Part 3) – The Cash Conversion Cycle
If liquidity is a key metric to consider when looking for safer shares, what is the best measure of liquidity? Financial websites tell us to focus on a combination of the Current Ratio and the Quick Ratio. As you know, both have flaws relating to the time required to turn assets into available cash. The…
Setting Up A Watchlist
What progress have watchlists made! From the yellow pad and end-of-day newspaper quotes to instantaneous online watchlists that transverse a multitude of search criteria: sectors, market capitalization, growth, moving averages or trading volume. All this could be at your fingertips, for free, in just few seconds. For decades, stocks have been the most popular investment…
Where the wealthy stash their cash
Think mega wealthy, seriously cashed up, an embarrassment of riches and the elite and exclusive world of private banking, add to that investment strategies for tens, hundreds, thousands of millions of dollars. Are you visualising brilliantly conceived systems of complex, sophisticated asset allocation schemes? From the outside looking in there is a distinct notion of…
