10 Lessons to be Learnt

10 Lessons to be Learnt

The Daily Telegraph's EMMA SIMON had summarised 10 lessons to be learnt for the last 10 years to remind the investors that shocked the stock market.

They are:

1. A guarantee is only as good as the guarantor;
2. Don't buy something you don't understand;
3. Higher returns come with higher risks;
4. Don't pay more than you have to;
5. Long-term investments do not always mean long-term gains;
6. Ask how your adviser earns his money;
7. Read the small print;
8. Don't rely on easy credit;
9. Don't rely on others to provide a pension;
10. What goes up also comes down.

China Megatrends

China Megatrends
By John & Doris Naisbitt

John & Doris Naisbitt and his 28 staff members of the Naisbitt China Institute in Tianjin studied the patterns of the rising of China economy. The research reveals that China is not only undergoing fundamental changes but also creating a new social and economic system - VERTICAL DEMOCRACY - that is changing the roles of global trade and challenging Western democracy with its own model.

In their research, they have found out the EIGHT pillars of the new Chinese system. They are:

Emancipation of the Mind
Balancing Top-down and Bottom-up
Farming the Forest and Letting the Trees grow
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones
Artistic and Intellectual Ferment
Joining the World
Freedom and Fairness
From Olympic Medals to Nobel Prizes

A thoughtful, ambitious overview sure to be of interest to all those curious about China economics.

Billion Dollar Green - Profit from the ECO Revolution

Billion Dollar Green
by Tobin Smith

Climate changes, that caused the rises of sea water level, have started to affect our usual way of living. Strategies to combat global warming are being worked out. These includes a carbon trading system to cut greenhouse gas emissions. So a green revolution of sorts has begun and with that comes business opportunities on developing viable sources of alternative energy.

Tobin Smith gives you the facts and forecasts on growth in the 'green investing front' and let you see for yourself just how large this opportunity is. He analyses different green energy sectors from solar to wind energy, from hydrogen fuel cells to green car to green buildings and etc. On top of the analysis, he also provides information on investing in green companies.

Tobin Smith tells you not only where the hot money will be made, but, what revolutionary trends lie just around the corner. He details ten or more companies who are real growth stocks with investment profit potential. This book is for anyone interested in investing in the companies that will make billions from the solutions to the billion-dollar problems in the green technology space.

Overall the book is an informative read for those who are looking to learn about green technology and are interested to invest in green technology companies.

How to Smell a Rat : The Five Signs of Financial Fraud

How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud

By Ken Fisher

With the recent financial fraud led by Bernard Madoff, many investors are unsure who to trust with their hard earned money.

In "How to Smell a Rat : The Five Signs of Financial Fraud" the latest book from Ken Fisher, CEO of Fisher Investments, provides you with an insider's view on how to spot potential financial disasters before you commit your money to a scam and protects you against similar frauds in the future. Using real examples of recent and historic fraudsters, this book examines how they operated and how investors could have avoided them. Ken Fisher identifies important red flags and questions that can be used by investors when evaluating money managers:

Advisers with direct access to investors' funds;
Firms with numbers that seem too good to be true;
Managers with fees that are too low (Madoff didn't charge any fees, he just charged for trading);

You'll be better prepared to identify and avoid financial scams that could destroy the wealth you've worked so hard to build.

The main chapters of the book are

Chapter 1 : Good Fences Makes Good neighbours

Chapter 2: Too Good to be True Usually Is

Chapter 3: Don't be Blinded by Flashy Tactics
Chapter 4: Exclusivity, Marble and Other Things That don't Matter
Chapter 5: Due Diligence is Your Job, No One Else's
Chapter 6: A Financial Fraud - Free Future

Holiday

Holiday during last four months

We have been occupied by other matters and events during last four months and we regret for no publishing any posts in this blog. There were a lot of changes during this period especially for investors. Most of the investors were happy about the bullish of the shares markets as well as commodities markets.

We wish to share our happiness of the marriage of our daughter. The following are some of the photos that have been taken during her wedding.

Ten Rules to remember for share investors

Robert Bab Farrell, former Merrill Lynch chief market strategist, has fifty years of top Wall Street experience and insights, summaries the markets in ten commonsense simple rules for us to remember when investing.

1. Markets tend to return to the mean over time.
2. Excesses in one direction will lead to an opposite excess in the other direction.
3. There are no new eras - excesses are never permanent.
4. Exponential rapidly rising or falling markets usually go further than you think, but they do not correct by going sideways.
5. The public buys the most at the top and the least at the bottom.
6. Fear and greed are stronger than long-term resolve.
7. Markets are strongest when they are broad and weakest when they narrow to a handful of blue chips names.
8. Bear markets have three stages - sharp down; reflexive rebound; a drawn-out fundamental downtrend.
9. When all the experts and forecasts agree - something else is going to happen.
10. Bull markets are more fun than bear markets.

The End of Food by Paul Roberts

In the book, Roberts says one of the main roots of the wider food crisis is the way a unified farming process was broken down into discrete components so that they could each be industrialised, from the development and production of seeds and the mechanisation of planting and harvesting through to factory-scale food processing.
These changes have lead to a system where each individual step in the process takes no account of the wider costs imposed on the rest of society.
In addition, there is an ongoing concern about climate change. Not only does this system generate enormous greenhouse gas emissions. It is also dependant on huge quantities of water, something that is to become less secure as existing water sources are used up.
Roberts says, for example 'bird flu' is one of a number of bullets that could strike the modern food system . He also lists oil price rise, extreme weather, plant diseases and the loss of water supplies as other potential disasters awaiting us in this global Russian Roulette.
The title of this book - The end of food - means the collapse of this industrialised food system. It is this pessimism that runs to the heart of the book.