How To Invest

In addition, Pat thinks then beginner investors should cultivate two important qualities: a healthy sense of skepticism and patience.

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Investors should approach all investments with a healthy sense of skepticism. This can help keep you out of fraudulent stocks that masquerade as high-quality stocks. It will also keep you out of legally operated, but poorly managed, companies that promise more than they can possibly deliver.

If you are a new investor, you should also realize that losing patience can cause you to sell your best choices right before a big rise. All too often, investors buy a promising stock just as it enters a period of price stagnation. Even the best-performing stocks run into these unpredictable phases from time to time. They move mainly sideways in a wide range for months or years before their next big rise begins. (Stock brokers often refer to these stocks as “dead money.”)

If you lack patience, you run a big risk of selling your best choices in the midst of one of these phases, prior to the next big move upward. If you lose patience and sell, you are particularly likely to do so in the low end of the trading range, when stock prices have weakened and confidence in the stock has waned.

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We believe that virtually all investors should have some gold exposure, and high-quality gold producers are your most practical choice. Gold miners benefit from their rising output and cash flow—no matter what the spot price for gold is or where inflation rates are.


Still, when you invest in gold producers, you will indeed profit from rising gold prices. That’s without bearing the cost to store and insure physical gold investments like gold bars, coins, etc. Note—the best gold mining stocks also pay you dividends, which tend to rise along with gold prices and production.

We designed our TSINetwork Ratings to give you an idea of the investment quality and risk in stocks we recommend, so you can build a portfolio that suits your needs and objectives.

Other rating systems use a mechanical process to make investment decisions.

Ours relies on our analysts’ judgments and is based on their knowledge of each company and its place in the economy.
A: Coupang Inc., $31.08, symbol CPNG on New York (Shares outstanding: 1.7 billion; Market cap: $57.0 billion; www.aboutcoupang.com), is South Korea’s largest e-commerce company.


Often called the “Amazon of South Korea,” Coupang was founded by Bom Suk Kim, a graduate of Harvard University, who went on to Harvard Business School before dropping out after six months to return to South Korea and start the delivery platform in 2010.



The company launched its IPO and began trading on New York on March 10, 2021. That’s when it sold shares at $35 each.



Coupang provides retail, restaurant delivery, video streaming and financial technology services (fintech) to customers around the world. The company’s brands include Coupang, Coupang Eats, Coupang Play and Farfetch.
A: Zebra Technologies Corp., $327.29, symbol ZBRA on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 50.9 million; Market cap: $16.7 billion; www.zebra.com), is a global leader in the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) industry.


The AIDC market consists of mobile computing, data capture, radio frequency identification devices (RFID), and thermal barcode printing. It also includes other workflow automation products and services.



Zebra’s products, services and software aim to help its customers and end-users digitize and automate their workflows to achieve their business goals. These include improved productivity and operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and better customer experiences.
Over the last few several months, Inner Circle Members have asked the following question, in one form or another. Here, in brief, is our answer.


Q: I’ve been a long-time reader and applying your work/research to my Portfolios with excellent success. My U.S. stock exposure was 25% of my Portfolio, and lately I decided to lower it to 15% because of all the commotion in the White House. What are your thoughts on the U.S. exposure percentage for a retired investor in their early 70s? Thanks.