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…
Return on Equity (ROE) – Is It the ‘Magic Number’ of Share Picking Tools?
Although some share market skeptics claim most share picking tools yield results no better than throwing darts at a wall, there are numbers any investor can look at to help pick solid investments. Return on Equity (ROE) is one such number. Simply put, ROE measures how well a company makes use of the money its…
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…
