The key to successful long-term investing is to buy high-quality companies with a substantial competitive advantage at attractive prices and hold for the long-term, resisting the temptation to tinker with your portfolio in the meantime.
The hardest part of this strategy is finding the high-quality companies with the most attractive economic moats or competitive advantages in the first place, and it seems as if every investor has a different method of separating the wheat from the chaff.
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Rupert is a committed value investor and regularly writes and invests following the principles set out by Benjamin Graham. He is the editor and co-owner of Hidden Value Stocks, a quarterly investment newsletter aimed at institutional investors. Rupert owns shares in Berkshire Hathaway.
Rupert holds qualifications from the Chartered Institute For Securities & Investment and the CFA Society of the UK.
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