Word: investor
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...EXACTLY DID A RICH KID LIKE YOU END UP DEFENDING THE SMALL INVESTOR? I think it helped that I know people on Wall Street and I understand investment banking. I didn't buy their easy rationalizations and explanations about what was going on. And these are great cases. It's fun to go up against the Goliaths and bring them down...
...emotional shift both on Wall Street and in boardrooms. What's changed is the level of arrogance that drove corporate governance to the precipice. I think it's safe to get back into the market now as long as you have an adequate degree of caution. And as an investor, you should never forget that it's your money at stake, not theirs. Oh, and if you see a shark's fin, get out of the water...
Skip the analyst conference calls. Turn off CNBC. If you want to be a savvy investor, curl up with a 10-Q instead. Such is the advice of veteran financial journalist Michelle Leder in Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company's True Value. She doesn't expect you to read all 300 pages of a company's financial statement or try to comprehend complex derivatives. The most crucial section is the footnotes, where many companies bury bad news. An attentive reader can spot the red flags: inflated growth assumptions for pension assets, a subsidiary controlled...
...with IPOs, were all about founders cashing out of profitless ventures. Yes, IPO prices doubled overnight in that supercharged period. But most of the stocks ultimately crashed and burned. Today's IPOs are well grounded; most of the companies already make money, and they're raising new capital on investor-friendly terms to reinvest for growth...
...sold initial shares in the third quarter, and a notable backlog is building. In every cycle, the best companies go public first. In general, these are companies that were strong enough to survive the weak economy. Also, investment bankers realize they need a string of solid deals to build investor confidence...