Hi Askaboutmoney readers,
About 1 year ago I discovered this site and at the time downloaded and read the Askaboutmoney Guide to Savings and Investing. This free booklet was a real eye opener for me (would very much recommend it) and at the time I realised that I needed to do something about my lack of financial and investing knowledge, so over the last 12 months I have read the following books from cover to cover.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by B Malkiel
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by J C Bogle
The Warren Buffet Way by R G Hagstrom
The Four Pillars of Investing by W Bernstein
Investing in Stocks and Shares by J While
Fooled by Randomness by N Taleb
The Next Big Investment Boom by M Shipman
I tried to read this book to...
Getting Started in Technical Analysis by J Schwager
But after reading the previous books my heart just wasn’t in technical analysis and I'm not interested in trading so I gave up on it.
Anyway I’ve come to the conclusion that the best place to invest most of my money for the longer term (5-10 years) is in a broad based equity index fund with the lowest possible charges.
At the moment I’m looking for information on etfs namely iShares MSCI Europe and iShares MSCI Emerging Markets. There is plenty of historical price information on the ishares website on these funds and data on how well the they track the index.
But what I’m looking for is PE ratio data for these market indexes to put the recent fall in equities and funds in prospective. It’s easy to see that prices have fallen pretty dramatically recently but it would be very help full to know if the PE for the MSCI Europe index for example was in the 10-15 range, 15-20 range or above.
Sorry for the long post.
Cheers Bogle
About 1 year ago I discovered this site and at the time downloaded and read the Askaboutmoney Guide to Savings and Investing. This free booklet was a real eye opener for me (would very much recommend it) and at the time I realised that I needed to do something about my lack of financial and investing knowledge, so over the last 12 months I have read the following books from cover to cover.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by B Malkiel
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by J C Bogle
The Warren Buffet Way by R G Hagstrom
The Four Pillars of Investing by W Bernstein
Investing in Stocks and Shares by J While
Fooled by Randomness by N Taleb
The Next Big Investment Boom by M Shipman
I tried to read this book to...
Getting Started in Technical Analysis by J Schwager
But after reading the previous books my heart just wasn’t in technical analysis and I'm not interested in trading so I gave up on it.
Anyway I’ve come to the conclusion that the best place to invest most of my money for the longer term (5-10 years) is in a broad based equity index fund with the lowest possible charges.
At the moment I’m looking for information on etfs namely iShares MSCI Europe and iShares MSCI Emerging Markets. There is plenty of historical price information on the ishares website on these funds and data on how well the they track the index.
But what I’m looking for is PE ratio data for these market indexes to put the recent fall in equities and funds in prospective. It’s easy to see that prices have fallen pretty dramatically recently but it would be very help full to know if the PE for the MSCI Europe index for example was in the 10-15 range, 15-20 range or above.
Sorry for the long post.
Cheers Bogle
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