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My 6 Biggest Investment Mistakes
By The Smart Investor  •  February 24, 2023
This is the second part of a new series featuring several investment mistakes that investors may commit. These examples are taken from my personal experience as a rookie investor. I hope that you can imbibe the lessons from these mistakes so that you avoid making them yourself. You can refer to the first three mistakes over HERE, while here are another three mistakes that you should be wary of. 4. Weak management This mistake relates to a company back in 2005 that was planning to raise money to fund an acquisition. The company carried out a share placement to institutional investors to raise funds for the purchase. All was well and good until I realized that the new shareholders will be entitled to the same dividends as the existing shareholders, even though they became owners at a later date! To explain this situation, let’s take a hypothetical example. Imagine a company that pays a dividend for the period...
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The Smart Investor is co-founded by David Kuo, Joanna Sng, and Chin Hui Leong. The company was formed in late 2019 from the ashes of the Motley Fool Singapore. The Smart Investor believes that everybody can learn how to invest, smartly. We aim to educate people on how to invest smartly by providing investing education, stock commentary and market coverage for Singapore and around the world.
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