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Managing your investment portfolio is not an easy task, but here are some tips on how to do so successfully.

Over a long horizon, businesses inevitably experience many economic cycles. A diversified portfolio of shares helps to spread the risk.

You can’t learn how to invest by just reading a book. But you can get started with a pen and…

You can learn a lot by attending annual general meetings and asking the right questions.

If a company can perform during a tough economy, it stands to reason that it will do as good or better when the economic conditions improve. 

Be wary of extrapolating a trend into the future when there may be scant evidence that it can be sustained.

To be a successful investor, what matters most is a calm mind and a simple plan youcan put to work despite volatility.

It is all right to have investment heroes, just avoid placing them on a pedestal.

Make sure you don’t imbibe the wrong lessons from market crashes.

When the stock market is declining, here’s what you should do.

To react to news as an investor signifies an illusion that you can get in and out of a stock before the informationbecomes mainstream. The reality is far different.

There is no shortage of naysayers warning of impending doom. That indicates that there are still many investors out there who are capable of pushing the market to new highs.

Want to learn how to become a better investor? Here are several habits you can adopt to improve your investment results.

Investing in stocks may be scary at first, but this fear should pale in comparison to the fear of running out of money when we retire.

Focus on the business narrative, not the stock price. Over time, stock prices converge to each business’ intrinsic value.

We tend to extrapolate what we see in the present, which is why investment and economic projections are usually way off the mark.

Investing well in a time of turbulence requires more than talent. Here’s what you can do to improve your chances.

Starting your children off investing at an early age gives them more time to compound their wealth.

Be wary of investing by so-called calendar effects. It is far better to find good stocks to hold for the long term.

The best lessons are learnt over years and decades, and not from the past 12 months.