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What are the Basic steps in a " Investment Process"?

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Question added by VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN , Project Execution Manager & Accounts Manager , ALI INTERNATIONAL TRADING EST.
Date Posted: 2014/12/06
Raafat Sallam
by Raafat Sallam , Organizational Development and Training Consultant , Training Centers, Marketing Organizations.

1- Determine the budget2- Define the market you want to enter3- Collect data and information.4- analyze the data and information.5- make the feasibility study.

If it feasible, i.e., has ROI then start.

 

Michael Finner
by Michael Finner , BPM Technical Writer , Belcan

I would say you need a strategy first.  Define the term of the investment: long, short, medium.  How much risk can you handle?  Research, build an investment profile, on-line, according to your parameters, back date it and see how it would have worked.  There are on-line tools to use to build a model investment portfolio with imaginary money.  Review your progress and adjust, are your goals still the same?

If you seek to find lower cost investment options you will probably find more room for growth, for example a lot of funds are top-heavy on fees, which eat away at your investment over time.  When others do the work - they need to get paid, results or no.

Shahan Khan
by Shahan Khan , Officer GSP , WWF-Pakistan (Corporate Relations)

Sir.Vindo has explained it tremendously.

Bhojraj      Dahal
by Bhojraj Dahal , supply chain coordinator , L’Oréal

nice answer by Mr. @vinodjetley. 

Alex Al Yazouri
by Alex Al Yazouri , General Manager , Al Mushref Cooperative Society

Fundamental research is hard work and constantly challenges a team's ability to draw the right conclusions and combine all the different pieces in a compelling and profitable way. Our specialized management teams analyze the most attractive companies in their respective investment universe, draw up detailed financial models and maintain a constant dialog with company executives and leading industry experts.

Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

 

As investors, we would all like to beat the market handily, and we would all like to pick "great" investments on instinct. However, while intuition is undoubtedly a part of the process of investing, it is just part of the process. As investors, it is not surprising that we focus so much of our energy and efforts on investment philosophies and strategies, and so little on the investment process. It is far more interesting to read about how Peter Lynch picks stocks and what makes Warren Buffett a valuable investor, than it is to talk about the steps involved in creating a portfolio or in executing trades. Though it does not get sufficient attention, understanding the investment process is critical for every investor for several reasons:

 

  • The investment process outlines the steps in creating a portfolio, and emphasizes the sequence of actions involved from understanding the investor?s risk preferences to asset allocation and selection to performance evaluation. By emphasizing the sequence, it provides for an orderly way in which an investor can create his or her own portfolio or a portfolio for someone else.
  • The investment process provides a structure that allows investors to see the source of different investment strategies and philosophies. By so doing, it allows investors to take the hundreds of strategies that they see described in the common press and in investment newsletters and to trace them to their common roots.
  • The investment process emphasizes the different components that are needed for an investment strategy to by successful, and by so doing explain why so many strategies that look good on paper never work for those who use them.

 

The best way of describing this is by noting what it does not do. It does not emphasize individual investors or push an investment philosophy. It does not focus heavily on coming up with strategies that beat the market.The process of investing is the same no matter what investment philosophy one might have.

 

The process always starts with the investor and understanding his or her needs and preferences. For a portfolio manager, the investor is a client, and the first and often most significant part of the investment process is understanding the client?s needs, the client?s tax status and most importantly, his or her risk preferences. For an individual investor constructing his or her own portfolio, this may seem simpler, but understanding one?s own needs and preferences is just as important a first step as it is for the portfolio manager.

 

The next part of the process is the actual construction of the portfolio, which we divide into three sub-parts. The first of these is the decision on how to allocate the portfolio across different asset classes defined broadly as equities, fixed income securities and real assets (such as real estate, commodities and other assets). This asset allocation decision can also be framed in terms of investments in domestic assets versus foreign assets, and the factors driving this decision. The second component is the asset selection decision, where individual assets are picked within each asset class to make up the portfolio. In practical terms, this is the step where the stocks that make up the equity component, the bonds that make up the fixed income component and the real assets that make up the real asset component are picked. The final component is execution, where the portfolio is actually put together, where investors have to trade off transactions cost against transactions speed. While the importance of execution will vary across investment strategies, there are many investors who have failed at this stage in the process.

 

The final part of the process, and often the most painful one for professional money managers, is the performance evaluation. Investing is after all focused on one objective and one objective alone, which is to make the most money you can, given the risk constraints you operate under. Investors are not forgiving of failure and unwilling to accept even the best of excuses, and loyalty to money managers is not a commonly found trait. By the same token, performance evaluation is just as important to the individual investor who constructs his or her own portfolio, since the feedback from it should largely determine how that investor approaches investing in the future.

 

Summary

 

The first is on understanding client needs and preferences, where we look at not only how to think about risk in investing but also at how to measure an investor’s willingness to take risk. The second is the asset allocation decision, while the third is to examine different approaches to selecting assets. The fourth is to look at the execution decision, and the fifth is to develop different approaches to evaluating performance.

 

 

 

Mohammad Mohammad Ahmed El-Safty
by Mohammad Mohammad Ahmed El-Safty , مشرف تدريب وتطوير , شركة ميداس للتجارة العامة والمقاولات

As Usual Mr. Vinod aced it. Thanks for his contribution

Deleted user
by Deleted user

I think that is important in the investment process

- The presence of the Organization of the laws of his

- There is a desire his investment environment

There is a desire from reputable companies to do

As well as the presence and capital

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