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HOW TO ACHIEVE 1000%+ STOCK RETURNS

Do you want to learn how to double your money in the stock market? How about making it grow 20, 40 or 60 fold? Not possible you say? I'm here to tell you that not only is it possible, but it's being done right now by amateurs and professionals alike. Investors such as Benjamin Graham (The Intelligent Investor), Philip Fisher (Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits), Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway), Michael Lee-Chin/Jonathan Wellum (AIC Group of Funds) have created millions of dollars for their clients over the last decade!

How can you learn to do the same? By using the TIC Handbook to learn a very special method of investing - the 'Buy and Hold' strategy of investing.

1. What exactly is the 'Buy and Hold' method?

In general, the 'Buy and Hold' method involves the identification and valuation of superior businesses. Once such a business is identified, the investor simply waits until the price drops below it's intrinsic/true value. When it does, the investor buys it and watches as the investment compounds into millions!

Why settle for short-term, short-changed, tax-inefficient profits when you can go for long-term, tax-efficient, million dollar jackpots?

If you are in the right companies, the potential rise can be so enormous that everything else is secondary.
- Philip Fisher, Forbes 1996

[Click here to read the Forbes interview of the infamous Philip Fisher]

2. Couldn't I just learn the method myself?

You definately can. However, in order to do so you will need to either buy and sift through a massive number of books, newsletters, annual reports and SEC filings. Although many books are extremely useful they are not often geared towards the small investor, and in many cases, the books are out of date and calculations may not be appropriate in today's market!

3. Ok. What's are the advantages of this method?

To design an extraordinary portfolio, you need a system that is proven to work. Philip Fisher, who has been investing with this method since the 1930s, is living proof that the 'buy-and-hold' method works. Here are some of the many advantages to the 'buy-and-hold' school of investing:

1. It's simple. As Warren Buffett wisely noticed, when investing in a few select companies you avoid the problem of trying to make hundreds of intelligent investment decisions. All you simply need to do is make one or two good decisions - and stick with them!
2. It's tax efficient. Since you don't sell for a quick, meaningless profit, the government doesn't reap any rewards from your hard work. Capital gains tax can be put off until the distant future and their impact will not be as harsh!
3. It's easy to manage. Now there is no need to spend hundreds of hours keeping track of what the companies in your portfolio are doing! Put your eggs in this one, golden basket and watch that basket!
4. It's worthwhile! A $10,000 investment, with reinvested dividends, in a stock purchased by Philip Fisher in 1957 is now worth well over $3.6 million today! (Even with the dividends factored out the investment is still worth $2 million!)

   4. This method must be complex and hard to understand. Surely you need a business degree of some sort?
   

   The TIC Handbook is written in an easy-to-understand manner. Although the method itself is not hard to understand, that is not to say that it is easy. It requires extreme patience and conviction - more than investors usually have. However, after reading the TIC Handbook you'll learn to achive the conviction necessary for success. Warren Buffett, the second richest man in America, sums it up best:

"To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off knowing nothing of these."
- Warren Buffett, 1996 Chairman’s Letters to Shareholders

According to Buffett, all you need to learn is two things: How identify a superior business and how to determine it's true worth so you know what to pay for it!

The bottom line is this: If you are committed to obtaining what you truly deserve from your investments, you must make the distinction between the mediocre and the superior companies in the market. This simple, easy-to-read handbook will introduce you to the 'Buy and Hold' strategy and take the guess work out of investing! No longer will you waste your time pondering the money supply, investor psychology, momentum, interest rates or any other irrelevant statistic.

"When we bought 8 or 9 percent of the Washington Post in one month not one person who was selling to us was thinking that he was selling us $400 million [worth] for $80 million. They were selling to us because communication stocks were going down, or other people were selling, or whatever reason. They had non-sensical reasons."
- Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett the Making of an American Capitalist, Roger Lowenstein

Once learn how to valuate a company you will be on your way to sucessful investing! Here are some of the topics covered in the TIC Handbook:

1. Introduction
1.1 The Ultimate Goal of investing

2. Stocks and the Qualitative Side of Business
2.1 Ownership of a Business
2.2 Nature of the Business
2.3 Understanding Your Business
2.4 Choosing Your Managers

3. Introduction to the Consolidated Financial Statements
3.1 Consolidated Statements of Income
3.2 Consolidated Balance Sheet
3.3 Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
3.4 Consolidated Statement of Shareholder Equity

4. The Quantitative Side of Business
4.1 An Investor's Primary Concern: Return on Shareholder Equity
4.2 The Life Blood of Business: Earnings
4.3 Measure of Resilency: Net Profit Margins and Current Ratio
4.4 The Killer of Businesses: Long-term Debt
4.5 Annual Payouts: Capital Expenditures and Dividends
4.6 Much Ado About Nothing: Price to Earnings Ratio
4.7 Dividends
4.8 Share Buybacks
4.9 Corporate Diversification

5. Management Decisions
5.1 Dividends
5.2 Share Buybacks
5.3 Corporate Diversification

6. What is this Business Worth?
6.1 Present and Future Value of Money and Earning Power
6.2 Application of Earning Power
6.3 Liquidation Value
6.4 Putting It All Together

7. Miscellaneous
7.1 Investor Diversification
7.2 Price Equals Value
7.3 Inflation
7.4 How Do You Calculate Brand Name?
7.5 When to Sell Your Stake in a Million Dollar Business

The TIC Handbook is currently being offered at the cost of $10 + GST ($10.70).

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