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By: invest stock market

invest stock market — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:44:07 +0000

Thanks for this great article. I have been searching Google for article like this about investing on stock market. Very informative..Thanks again

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By: Jae Jun

Jae Jun — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:32:07 +0000

Hi Santosh,

Thanks a lot. Im glad you are finding useful information and hope to see you around more often.

By: Santosh Nair

Santosh Nair — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:28:58 +0000

Hi Jae,

You have a very good blog. Your hard work and dedication shows in the quality of your posts.

As a novice investor, I am getting to learn a lot.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks,
Santosh

By: Jae Jun

Jae Jun — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:15:38 +0000

@DGI
Thanks! Just a little hard trying to remember all the steps I took.

@Paul
I used to have a bunch of mutual funds in my retirement account but luckily my company also has a separate brokerage account that allows us to purchase individual stocks. I reviewed how the funds were performing and they really are a shocker. It does worse than the market but at the same time, cant outperform it on a rally.

@Jason
Although we both started at a bad time, I believe it was the BEST time to invest in terms of gaining experience in a severe recession. My portfolio isn’t very big so it makes things much easier to manage but it would have been pretty bad to go through this later on. I’m sure you and I can do much better in the future because of this.

I also ended up having to sell most of the companies I bought when I first started out. They weren’t as good as I thought after learning how to analyse companies.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:14:16 +0000

We started investing at the same time! Unfortunately, I have been roasted over the last 1.5 years, and have learned some serious lessons in these times.

Thanks for your blog; it is very informative, and has shaped my investment perspective for the better.

Keep up the good work.

By: Paul (aka augustabound)

Paul (aka augustabound) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:08:25 +0000

“More than 90% of mutual funds underperform the market and a majority of the mutual funds have very similar holdings as other mutual funds.”
Amen to that. This was my first clue as to why mutual funds weren’t for me. Here in Canada, most equity mutual funds hold (or held when I was looking into them), all 5 big banks, all of the major insurers, the big 3 telecoms etc.
You’re better off indexing than buying a Canadian mutual fund and paying the higher MER.

Nice post and I love the blog!

By: Dividend Growth Investor

Dividend Growth Investor — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:10:48 +0000

Jae,

Nice post. I am looking forward to redaing your series in the future.

Best Regards,

DGI

Dividend Growth Investor’s last blog post..Value Investing is all about finding market inefficiencies