In my previous post I wrote about the basic principles for responsible investing in the share market: how to diverse the investments and lower the risks. In this post I will try to give give my thoughts about the common questions when to buy and sell shares, which I think is really a question about … Continue reading Basic portfolio management →

Dealing with very large or very small can easily be confusing and it can be hard to appreciate e.g. how much larger an (american) billion is than a million. One way is to think in time: One million seconds (1e6 s) equals about 11.6 days, whereas one billion seconds (1e9 s) equals just over 31 … Continue reading Very large and very small numbers →

The Price per Earnings ratio or P/E value gives a rough indication of how highly a share of a certain company is priced compared wot other companies. The P/E value basically tells you how much you will have to pay to own a certain share of the earnings of the company; earnings that in some … Continue reading Company valuation: the price/earnings ratio →