While the pandemic created excess mortalities and hammered life insurers’ profits, it did reinforce how critical life insurance is and how important the institutions that write this cover are to the broader economy. The pandemic has faded into an endemic, mortalities have drifted lower (though they remain slightly elevated on some metrics and we still…
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When Does Valuation Matter & When Doesn’t it?
OLD ARTICLE – Original posted on October 5, 2018 Introduction: Fundamentals are what you get but valuation is how much you pay for it. The less you pay for a given set of fundamentals, the more you weight the odds in your favour that the investment will have a positive outcome. Hence, even if fundamentals are…
Difference Between Value Investing & Being a Contrarian
OLD ARTICLE – Original posted on January 29, 2013 Value investing is a process of identifying potential investments that can be bought for less than they are actually worth. This is done via the valuation process. Once an undervalued investment is identified and it meets the criteria the investor is looking for, it is bought and…