How do investors choose stocks? - Richard Coffin
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Every day, billions of stocks are traded on the New York Stock Exchange alone. But with over 43,000 companies listed on stock exchanges around the world, how do investors decide which stocks to buy? And what do individuals and institutions achieve by investing in stocks? Richard Coffin explores the tactics of different investing strategies.
It is often said that stock markets behave like a “voting machine” in the short-term and a “weighing machine” long-term. How does this tie into the active and passive investment philosophies?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Richard M. Coffin
- Director Franz Palomares
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Associate Editorial Producer Elizabeth Cox
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
