Sunday, August 30, 2009

《看見價值: 巴菲特一直奉行的財富與人生哲學》- Mary Buffett, David Clark









看見價值: 巴菲特一直奉行的財富與人生哲學
The Tao of Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett's Words of Wisdom: Quotations and Interpretations to Help Guide You to Billionaire Wealth and Enlighten - Mary Buffett, David Clark

Immediately become a little Buffettologist after reading this book and make me search more of his related books and his company- Berkshire Hathaway as well ( it is a high-valued company which helps its shareholder get satisfactory return every year but I have checked the " admission fee" to be a shareholder is stunning...US$102,200 per share!!!!!! Alhough I can't find the board lot, I am sure the one who can afford to buy are all millionaires...)

It was written by Warren Buffett's daughter-in-law

Although here are totally 125 quotations of him, some of their concepts ( especially the latter part of the book are duplicated. Still, it is worthy to read...many of them are witticisms

Compared with Lee Ka Shing, I appreciate him more. Apart from being a super successful investor, he contributed 85% of his wealth to the charity...definitely a generous person...

Besides mentioning his investing approach, it also mention the importance of integrity of a corporation, management skills or even some marketing concepts etc

I find he likes to focus and emphrasize on long-term investment instead of the short-term one, he prefers high-quality stocks (which can overcome the challenges and survive) and buy them when the overall economic condition is bad

But I am pretty sure that the brokers dislike Warren Buffett since they live on the comission depending on the frequent transactions in the stock market, if everyone is like Warren, the brokers/ consultants will be starve ot death

And I believe different people should have different strategies and philosophies since their financial conditions are not the same. Warren has super huge capitals to invest which allow him to gain a lot once he decided to sell the stocks as there will be a large sum return even the return rate is normal. As a mediocrity with limited capitals, if I adopt his strategies at this moment, the return will not be so obvious even the return rate looks good. ( although he always said value-investing, spend less but has a high return rate, it can't help much if you just invest $1 even with 100% return, right?)

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note for myself

- learn from experience, but if possible, learn from the others' experience first

-the ability of calculating percentage and possibility

- don't follow the trend

- jot down something which can force you to think deeply

- buy the stock which you can predict its future growth, with the ones which can generate return before but not merely the so-called potentials and expectations, buy the companies which you can expect even after 10-15 years due to unchange behaviours of the customers ( E.g. Cola Coke Budweiser)

- experience is important then academic theories

- " When the tide goes out, you will know who is swimming naked" > find out this person before the tide goes out

- the companies which fired employees and claimed to say it is a cost control measure was having bad cost control already

- do what you like and believe that you will be excel at that aspect one day

- self-marketing/ self-selling based on others' needs

- value investing - the company's fundamentals economic condition is important, good management cannot help much c.f. buy high-quality companies' stocks which are underestimated when the economy goes bad, be patient and let the value of the company grows


-accounting > business language> language of the game

- don't buy the stock which the company needs a large sum of capital to grow/ to develop its news products and thus they are unable to expand and acquire new companies or rebuy the stocks ( e.g. GM)

- don't cut price to protect te brand name

-popular and hot stocks can't help you to earn, never follow the irrational public 反向操作

- don't lose money since the principal is the key of success under the power of compound interest

-prevention is easier than getting rid of the problems once they emerge

-choosing the stocks is like choosing your life-long companion

-reply on you independent thinking rather than the analysts, consultants and brokers

- the little the compensation you pay, the higher the value you can get

- overdiversification is originated from ignorant

-don't buy some stocks you are not familiar with and with a blurred future

- buy resourse-monopoly industry (e.g. coal, road etc)

Thursday, August 20, 2009

《智富掌門人──踏上理財顧問成功路》- 冼健岷

《智富掌門人──踏上理財顧問成功路》- 冼健岷
It is well-written by the chief distribution officer of Convey Financial limited ( one of company of independent financial advisor)

It is an informative book which shows the career path of a financial consultant

I know more about it and that's part of motivations of me taking the CFP course at CUHK

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note to myself: 保監 >保險中介人考試 >paper1,3,5
証監>證券及期課從業員資格考試> 香港證券專業學會從業員資格證書( 證券) > HKSI papaer 1,7,8

Sunday, August 2, 2009

《投資大師羅杰斯給寶貝女兒的12封信》 - Jim Rogers

投資大師羅杰斯給寶貝女兒的12封信 A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing - Jim Rogers

It is a short read but it is not purely an investing guide, it is more about life lessons

He shares his life experience and shows his value, wisdom and insights of life and emphrasizes on learning from history, indepedent thinking...

Overall, it is filled with father's love to children

He offers a simple & common sense approach, but still valuable to read especially for the teenagers

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for reference

http://www.books.com.tw/activity/cris/2008/200807_rogers/