Personal Wealth Management

Learning how to invest while young is likely the best investment in time you will ever make. You can attempt a variety of strategies on paper. If they succeed, they may be used with real money once you have some to invest. If they do not, you learn a valuable lesson without losing any money.

Today, let us look at ways to practice identifying investment bubbles.   (more…)

Following on from “Three Common Investment Mistakes” and the impact of behavioural finance on investing, let’s take a quick look at investment bubbles.

Most of you are familiar with the US housing crash over recent years. Some of you may also remember the dot.com craze in the 1990s. Those would be examples of bubbles breaking.

In his very interesting work, The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson lists 5 stages of an investment bubble. The headers are his. The editorializing is all mine. So do not blame Niall. (more…)