Question: How do you protect your assets? Different strategies for Different asset class like Stocks, real estate, farmland, commodities, bonds? I’m interested to learn from the experiences of everyone.

Question: How do you protect your assets? Different strategies for Different asset class like Stocks, real estate, farmland, commodities, bonds? I’m interested to learn from the experiences of everyone.

Darren Hm: Diversify into asset classes with low or negative correlations. Trading strategies count as assets, and their correlations are usually much lower than with traditional asset classes.This paper gives a general idea of what I’m talking about, though I would not implement the strategy as described in the paper (too vulnerable to tail risk). …
Question: Anyone have how to find data on Chinese real estate? So much conflicting data on China

Question: Anyone have how to find data on Chinese real estate? So much conflicting data on China

Asked in 2012 — Lorenz Lrz: I have been following the market. Here is the big picture. Yes, the property market is under some stress now. The big developers (including those government linked entities) have been raising cash by either selling their existing inventory fast by cutting their ASP aggressively OR raising money from club …
Question: Since real estate prices (2012) are 50% less than 2006 prices, what are your thoughts about “Value Investing” in real estate?

Question: Since real estate prices (2012) are 50% less than 2006 prices, what are your thoughts about “Value Investing” in real estate?

Scott Thompson: Any bargains available? Avoid value traps, etc… Darren Hm: Commercial real estate finance has some metrics you can use to compare one investment against another. For example, you can look at the cap rate of an individual property or compare cap rates of different regions of the country. The difficulty with real estate …
Question: I know a lot about real estate but have a ton to learn about other investments. Can anyone recommend some good books to start learning?

Question: I know a lot about real estate but have a ton to learn about other investments. Can anyone recommend some good books to start learning?

Fred Rothstein: One up on Wall Street, intelligent investor Richard Bonilla: .. the snowball … H.K. Kang: That’s great, you could give us a tip how to learn about real estate. For stocks, “The little book that still beats the market” is a great book to learn about stocks. Dariusz Gentek: The Intelligent Investor is …