tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48499057198205953732024-02-08T04:34:04.915+01:00Value FinanceStock market,yahoo finance, finance, personal finance, warren buffett, warren buffet, true value, investing, beginner investing, investing for dummiers, money, money talks,make money on lineRobertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-1343791116667958562009-12-11T14:13:00.000+01:002009-12-11T14:16:10.044+01:00From Value to AbundantiaEvolution. Change. Sometimes it is more than needed.The idea of Value Finance started as a game, but with the time the development of the original idea become complicated to represent through a simple Blog.That is why I have decided to change, to transform the blog into a more articulate website where we could easily follow the performances of different portfolios.Abundantia Investment Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-64342389222079804312009-09-16T11:13:00.008+02:002009-09-16T12:22:16.756+02:00When is "ETF choice" the Right Choice? - Part 1Exchange-Traded Funds, shortly ETFs, represent a great way to take profit of the Stock Market when you do not want to invest hours and hours of your time reading annual reports, every Financial Time and WSJ latest news in order to make the 'right choice' for your portfolio. There are some ways to build on an automatic steered portfolio when you are not a financial expert:-you can trust your Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-80694892493283581552009-08-06T18:04:00.004+02:002009-08-06T18:33:43.818+02:00222 000 000222 millions. Is that what you will earn following this blog's suggestions?I wish that, but of course no. It is not. Or at least I cannot promise it, no one can promise these things and please, if you heard someone promising sure huge gains on finance: run away!!222 millions is the Google answer when you search 'Blog Finance' and you google it. That is a lot of:Finance is one of the most Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-45650719565350078392009-07-31T14:47:00.004+02:002009-07-31T15:13:18.312+02:00Portfolios performancesSome months ago I published on Reuters.com three portfolios, recently I added a fourth one. It is time to give a look about their performances:MyIdealPortfolio, representing a balanced portfolio which can be suitable for a long term inverstor who does not want to take high risks but still they want to invest in stocks, ETFs and Bonds (funds of bonds). This portfolio has obtained a unrealized gainRobertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-45650999716400471982009-07-22T13:45:00.000+02:002009-07-22T13:48:10.506+02:00Debt consolidation non profit- your savior in financial distressDebt help industry is doing brisk business and it has been able to help many debtors get out of debt. This is true not only for the for-profit making debt help firms but also for the debt consolidation non profit section of the debt help industry. Although the main aim of these companies is to help debtors get out of debt but there is one difference between the debt consolidation non profit Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-85342911728388399512009-07-16T13:23:00.004+02:002009-07-16T13:37:14.837+02:00Everything has to change because nothing changes.Here we are,Goldman Sachs yesterday and JP Morgan today are making plenty of money and the newspapers are already talking about new record in terms of bonuses... As Is -> To be -> As before:-) Financial crisis are unfortunately useful to the sistem to consolidate, to purge the inefficiencies and, furthermore, are necessary to make the market makers richer and richer.Since you cannot create, but Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-78795200505926009822009-04-29T14:13:00.005+02:002009-04-29T14:49:06.413+02:00How to build a well balanced portfolio ?Let's see what I have built. With your comments it would be great to improve our portfolio techniques!We have seen in previous post, the importance of having a reserve of cash or bonds in your investment portfolio in order to better balance the risk of a stock market downturn and to have a lot of cash to put in the market and profite of the downturns.I have decided to go on Reuters.com and open Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-78681917941485262102009-04-29T12:02:00.003+02:002009-04-29T14:12:07.351+02:00Cash is King.Making mistakes is part of life, it could be useful to make mistakes. Especially if they teach you how do better in future!What was my main mistake last year?Well I followed literally the "buy and hold forever" of Buffett's speeches, and I stayed in the market with my position, just changing a little bit some of the most aggressive to some less aggressive in order to fall down with a Beta not tooRobertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-48886298494308320742009-01-31T13:38:00.003+01:002009-01-31T14:30:58.764+01:00"it's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price".We have talked a lot about the companies' evaluation, but reading the old posts I have realized that a clear description of the stock evaluation process has never been given.Instead of describing this process with my own words I want to share with you a very well described internet page where you can find some excellent explanations and useful tools (it is in my bookmarks list :-) )Click here to Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-14604016881914301862009-01-23T14:09:00.002+01:002009-01-23T14:23:01.919+01:00Happy New YearAfter a long break, not a lot to say about a panic crisis selling period that still last and that probably will last for some more months.We remember that historically there is a sort of strong correlation between economic crisis and market reactions and that normally, in the past, equity markets have started to clib and re gain part of the losses about six month before the "official" END of eachRobertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-71543522144575948802008-11-06T21:48:00.005+01:002008-11-07T17:07:40.832+01:00I have a dream!Obama has won. First two days and Wall Street falls very deep. But as said in last post, I strongly believe that Obama will be a good answer to this crisis, by a psicological point of view and also, I hope, with the new rules that he will give to Wall Street.Personally, I would like to see Warren as next Treasury Secretary as someone has said in past months. I don't think he will be, but it wouldRobertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-65610456825499183882008-11-04T14:27:00.006+01:002008-11-04T14:54:44.891+01:00Obama Wins, We fly. Today is the day. America votes. Finally We'll know the doom of the World.Well yes it's just the election days in US, but if you were looking at TV of all around the World you'd have seen the level of interest and passion that this show....oups election has created all around the Globe. The Presidential campaign has cost about 2 bil dollars, a lot of money, but nothing compared to credit crunch,Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-3974056192500844492008-10-21T13:24:00.004+02:002008-10-21T13:35:32.189+02:00Credit/debit card systems in troubles? I do not like give catastrophic forecast, I prefer to give advices on good companies where you could buy value stocks for your long term profitable growth. But, in this case, I have to warn you on one of the company, or better, on a sector I have talked about on this blog: Credit Cards. I am not erasing the past words, I strongly believe that electronics payments in long term will grow more and Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-43345433574351587072008-10-13T15:28:00.005+02:002008-10-13T16:16:49.426+02:00Looking around while the storm is runningAs we've seen in previous post, there is a big storm out there in financial markets.Now European's have injected their 'doping' into financial system and today everything is deeply Green.Of course, it is not injecting enourmous amount of money in financial istitution that you save the world economy. You simply say: "Ok guys, you've done an enourmous amount of mistakes playing with you derivativesRobertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-41638626369666314692008-10-09T16:49:00.003+02:002008-10-09T17:39:15.811+02:00The Perfect StormEveryone who is reading this blog is interested in Financial markets.Everyone interested in Financial markets well know what it has happened during last weeks. Stock Exchanges have been oversold and the result is a deep loss worldwide with billions of euros of capitalisation burnt up. Of course Value Portfolio accused big losses too.I think it is not over.But I also think that every storm like Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-85490463661562281942008-09-24T10:11:00.003+02:002008-09-24T10:19:05.746+02:00Debts? What are they? If you have spent some time reading company balance sheets, you should well know that it is hard to find a company with a big, wonderful 0 (…yes, zero) in the Long term debts line. It is quite normal for companies to issue bonds or get some bank loan in order to finance their development and investments.This is not true at Apple Inc. In our previous post dedicated to Job’s masterpiece we have Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-476535017950116992008-09-19T11:09:00.004+02:002008-09-19T11:36:15.320+02:00The Master and the DiscipleWheneve you start an activity, playing tennis, chess, painting, is important to hav someone to look at as a Master, someone who you like and appreciate. When I started to approach myself to the Stock Exchange I've found this master in th person of Warren Buffett, the greatest investor ever.I've always liked his investment approach and techniqus, his deep look in the value of the Business more Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-50435889706840623512008-09-10T10:26:00.004+02:002008-10-09T17:43:07.346+02:00Better 10 minus 5% than one minus 10%, is it true?Strange yet truth?!? If you make a simple calculation you’ll see that on a portfolio of 10 lines (each lines has the equal value of dollars or euros or whatever you prefer be gigamillionaire :D ) if everyone loose 5% that man s that your global value has lost 5%, on the other case if 9 stay flat and one looses 10% you’ll globally loose about 1%.So, it would be better to loose only 1%, or not?Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-56859320058520970762008-09-02T12:06:00.004+02:002008-09-02T12:13:38.306+02:00Apples are good for Health!Which is, till now, the best Investment for Value Finance Portfolio? It has been Apple for last 8 months.Why have we had invested into this beloved (and hated by someone) company?There is a list of characteristics of Apple that makes it fitting our typical “check before investing list”.-First of all, Apple is a status symbol, is a magic brand with an huge value in terms of appeal, goodwill, brandRobertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-76853377246910745282008-08-02T10:13:00.005+02:002008-08-02T10:23:30.608+02:00Thanks Guys!Dear readers, Thank you so much!Thanks for having read this blog so much during only two months of activities.Thanks for the encouraging emails you've sent to me about the articles!It is really a pleasure to share with you some ideas and interesting point of view about investment and its techniques.I just thing that it will be even more interesting if you'd post directly on the blog, after the Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-26348568669696320382008-08-01T21:13:00.004+02:002008-08-01T21:26:02.777+02:00"The most valuable commodity I know of, is information " Gordon GekkoInternet: the big information mine.Almost everything could be find in Internet.Problem: have you all the time you need to everyday check the web sites you like? Usually No.Solution: RSS feeds.One you will subscribe the free RSS feed of one web site, as for example Value Finance RSS, you won't lose more time to get on the web page to check if there is a new article on. When the new article will beRobertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-27042401055312797162008-07-30T19:21:00.005+02:002008-07-30T19:32:50.403+02:00Doctor, we've an Emergency!Name: Stock MarketSickness: Maniac DepressiveI have already written about this silly crazy guy called Stock Market, but of course I have to kep you posted on his last performances and crazy behaviours to highlight the reality of its illness.During last weeks a lot of companies have given their three months results: something about 72% of them has OUTPERFORMED the estimations. Flows of money are Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-25662565560138419912008-07-29T19:55:00.005+02:002008-07-29T20:21:50.309+02:00Q Cells FinancialsQ-Cells is the World Leader in solar cells productions. We have seen in one of last posts the strategic point that has made it a good investment for our portfolio. Now it is interesting to dig a little bit and discover what is interesting to see about financial statements.Analysing the CFO’s speech during last shareholders meeting we can easily appreciate the good financial condition of Q-Cells Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-69047458436607031872008-07-25T08:51:00.003+02:002008-07-25T09:04:13.634+02:00The 'Prince' of InvestorsHere we are with our first post dedicated to the Hall of Fame of the Master Investors walking around the Planet. The purpose of these post won’t be to build the image of the ideal, or the best, investing way in order to give you a guideline as: ‘follow it and you’ll become like him’, because it would be quite useless and, you permit, stupid!By the way all these persons have something interesting Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849905719820595373.post-30915874660510546022008-07-21T12:09:00.006+02:002008-07-21T22:50:59.935+02:00German Sun for high returns As we have seen in one of the past post Solar Energy is the less exploited of renewable energy sources. That means huge possible profits over next years.Renewable energies seem to be the next big investment bubble (as telecom in late 90s), there are some companies trading with P/E ratio of over 300, especially in Wind energy and bio fuel production sectors.On the other hand, in solar energy you Robertohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01924306545280626121noreply@blogger.com1