Warren Buffett has some tips for you! And if you’ve been following our series on Buffett’s tenets, you’ve become a bit more familiar with what Buffett thinks about the market and what “qualities” he looks for in a business. Today, we go into more detail about the quantitative measures he examines in order to further his assertions of a company’s investability.

Now that Warren Buffett has shown us how oppportunities arise when the market is at its emotional extremes, it’s time to pick his brain on how he selects businesses. If you were just joining us, Investorial is running a series of Buffett’s tenets — his ideas on investing. We’ve already covered some of Buffett’s tenets on the market. If you want to catch up, by all means! We’ll wait for you.
The overriding tenet for all the discussion in this chapter will be that investors should “never invest in a business …

What has not already been written about Warren Buffett? No investor has been more prolific and enjoyed more success in the realm of investing than the “Sage of Omaha”. Indeed, many investors have deified Buffett, hanging on every word that the “Oracle” can deliver. Warren himself is only too happy to freely dispense of his earnest advice with a flair for an amusing gab. I suspect that Warren would be very content had he been a comedian in a past life.
Since so many out there enjoy Warren’s wisdom, let’s take …

I miss Herb Greenberg’s articles. If you didn’t know, he’s on summer vacation at the moment. I wanted to dissect the good, the bad and the ugly about the investment media out there in part because of heroes like him doing his part fighting for, and educating the un-informed masses.
I bookmarked 2 recent Greenberg articles and just re-read them tonight. Thought I’d share with you some of my thoughts about the good media out there! (Unless you think I’m always being critical, and cynical) The first must-read is an educational …

I’ve often voiced my displeasure for the way Canadian brokerage firms mistreat their customers with high fees, poor tools and poor services. You can find the many dissatisfied customer comments on my previous post regarding the TD Waterhouse / Ameritrade merger.
But those same brokerage firms insist that they are improving their services. For example, here’s TD Waterhouse telling you what they’re doing for their customers in their own words!