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“The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient.” — Warren Buffett Having patience as a fund manager can have an enormous impact on the performance of your fund. The first and most key step is to identify and invest in quality companies. This is a rigorous process that requires meticulous research to identify companies that display strong fundamentals. Once these have been identified, it is important to buy the company’s stock at the right price. Overpaying for a company can have negative long-term consequences in the fund and a share price might take years to reach the entry price again. The power of patience cannot be underestimated in this process.

There are many subtleties to measuring and understanding investment risk holistically. This article explores this concept and highlights some useful measures.

The Northstar Market Report provides powerful empirical evidence as to why we are confident that our investment philosophy and process, closely followed, will deliver market beating returns for our clients over time. This work again points to controllable factors - markets move wildly, falling in and out of love with different sectors and companies, but we have a defined formula that works and we stick to our guns by only owning quality companies when they are incorrectly valued by other investors. We discuss stocks in this report, delving into our investment cases for specific securities which we own.

At Platinum Portfolios we do not allocate money geographically by region, country specific or any thematic themes. Our process focusses on what is simple and smart and we decided on our strategy and process to allocate money to Multinational Companies (MNCs) for the following reasons:

INVESTING is a key aspect to creating personal wealth. Broadly speaking, an individual can select the stocks or bonds themselves, or outsource this to a fund or investment manager.

The Northstar Market Report provides powerful empirical evidence as to why we are confident that our investment philosophy and process, closely followed, will deliver market beating returns for our clients over time.